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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765618503321

Autore

Cunningham John

Titolo

Early modern Ireland and the world of medicine : practitioners, collectors and contexts / / edited by John Cunningham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-4514-6

Edizione

[Open Access Edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Social histories of medicine

Disciplina

610.9415

Soggetti

Social medicine

Medical care - Ireland - History

Medicine - Ireland - History

Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700

HISTORY / Europe / Ireland

History

Irland

Ireland

Northern Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland. Of particular note is the substantial attention devoted to the often neglected period before 1750. Among the key subjects addressed by the contributors are Gaelic medicine, warfare, the impact of new medical ideas, migration, patterns of disease, midwifery and childbirth, book collecting, natural history, and urban medicine. The twelve essays effectively situate Irish medicine in relation to long-term social and cultural change on the island, as well as to appropriate international contexts; British, European and Atlantic. Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine brings together a selection of established scholars as well as early career historians. It will be of interest to academics and students of the history of early modern medicine. It also contains much that will be essential reading for historians of Ireland.