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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Dr John Cunningham is Lecturer in Early Modern Irish and British History at Queen's University Belfast
Summary
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. -- .
