Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Clark, Fiona; Grell, Professor Ole Peter; Cunningham, Dr. Andrew; Kelly, James

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2009

242

Dura

Inglês

9780754665564

15 a 20 dias

The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. This title provides an exploration of the changes and developments in medicine as practised in Ireland and by Irish physicians studying and working abroad during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Contents: Introduction; The role of graduate physicians in professionalising medical practice in Ireland, c.1619-1654, Mary Ann Lyons; Medical practice and Gaelic Ireland, Charlie Dillon; Medicine and miracles in the late 17th century: Bernard Connor's Evangelium Medici (1697), Liam Chambers; Medicine, religion and social mobility in 18th- and early 19th-century Ireland, Laurence Brockliss; Domestic medication and medical care in late early modern Ireland, James Kelly; Institutional medicine and state intervention in 18th-century Ireland, Andrew Sneddon; Gendered medical advice within Anglo-Irish correspondence: a case study of the Cary-Jurin letters, Wendy D. Churchill; The wider cultures of 18th-century Irish doctors, Toby Barnard; Advancing the medical career abroad: the case of Daniel O'Sullivan (1760-c.1797), Fiona Clark; Index.
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