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oapen-20.500.12657-251362023-12-05T13:36:00Z Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine Cunningham, John Medicine early modern Ireland bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History 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. 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T10:27:49Z 2020-04-01T10:27:49Z 2019 book 1004957 OCN: 1135845813 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25136 eng Social Histories of Medicine Manchester University Press 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd 456acb98-9daf-4dc1-b6b9-6eeac7f7a31e 25591e82-20fd-43b7-9ca5-53d420ab6eea 34fd5858-ae5a-4de7-963b-6632bccc6fe4 272 Manchester, UK open access
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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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