Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Description

This book derives from a colloquium on Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that convened at the Queen's University of Belfast in April 2008. A number of themes resurface in different essays in the volume, among them the education and professional training of Irish medical practitioners in the early modern period; the role played by continental university medical faculties in this process; the diversity of the medical market; the acknowledgment by all social classes that formally trained or licensed medical practitioners did not have a monopoly of diagnostic and therapeutic expertise; the variety of treatments that were available to the sick, or at any rate to those who could afford to pay for medicine and advice; domestic medicine; and the nexus between religion and medicine in Ireland. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries medicine was the only profession from which Catholics were not formally excluded under the Penal Laws, a situation that had implications for the social and financial standing of the individuals concerned, for the practice of medicine in Ireland, and for the country's medical structures and establishments. (From Project Muse https://muse.jhu.edu/article/430889)

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"The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. The great discoveries of Harvey and Jenner sit incongruously with the persistence of Galenic theory, superstition and blood-letting. Yet despite continued research into the period as a whole, most work has focussed on the metropolitan centres of England, Scotland and France, ignoring the huge range of national and regional practice. This collection aims to go some way to rectifying this situation, providing 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. Bringing together research undertaken into the neglected area of Irish medical and social history across a variety of disciplines, including history of medicine, Colonial Latin American history, Irish, and French history, it builds upon ground-breaking work recently published by several of the contributors, thereby augmenting our understanding of the role of medicine within early modern Irish society and its broader scientific and intellectual networks."--Publisher's description.

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Other Editions

• Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesRoutledge2009-01-01
• Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesTaylor & Francis Group2016-01-01
• Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesTaylor & Francis Group2016-01-01
• Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesTaylor & Francis Group2016-01-01
• Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesTaylor & Francis Group2016-01-01
• Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesTaylor & Francis Group2016-01-01