Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine

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Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine

Practitioners, collectors and contexts

History of medicine History and Archaeology European history: medieval period, middle ages

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Collection: Social Histories of Medicine

Language: English

Published by: Manchester University Press

Published on: 14 May 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 545 Kb

ISBN: 9781526145147


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.

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