Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine

Practitioners, collectors and contexts
Herausgeber: Cunningham, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them in appropriate contexts. The main focus is on medical practitioners and their place in Irish society. The book makes a major contribution to scholarship on early modern medicine. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Social Histories of Medicine
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781526138156
• ISBN-10: 1526138158
• Artikelnr.: 56787241

Autorenporträt

Dr John Cunningham is Lecturer in Early Modern Irish and British History at Queen's University Belfast

Inhaltsangabe

John Cunningham
Introduction Áine Sheehan
Locating the Gaelic Medical Families in Elizabethan Ireland Benjamin Hazard
Early Modern Medical Practitioners and Military Hospital Systems in Flanders and the South
West of Ireland John Cunningham
Sickness, Disease and Medical Practitioners in 1640s Ireland Peter Elmer
Promoting Medical Change in Restoration Ireland: The Chemical Revolution and the Patronage of James Butler, duke of Ormond (1610
88) Philomena Gorey
The episcopal and institutional regulation of midwifery in Ireland c. 1600
1828 Clodagh Tait
Causes of Death and Cultures of Care in Co. Cork, 1660
1720: The Evidence of the Youghal Parish Registers Alice Marples
Medical practitioners as collectors and communicators of natural history in Ireland, 1680
1750 Elizabethanne Boran
Collecting Medicine in Early Eighteenth
Century Dublin: The Library of Edward Worth. Lisa Wynne Smith
The Many Meanings of an Eighteenth
Century Account of a Caesarean Operation Marc Caball
Transforming Tradition in the British Atlantic: Patrick Browne (c. 1720
1790), an Irish Botanist and Physician in the West Indies Susan Mullaney
The Evolution of the Medical Professions in Eighteenth
Century Dublin