Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine

Dr John Cunningham is Lecturer in Early Modern Irish and British History at Queen’s University Belfast

• John Cunningham - Introduction Áine Sheehan - Locating the Gaelic Medical Families in Elizabethan IrelandBenjamin Hazard - Early Modern Medical Practitioners and Military Hospital Systems in Flanders and the South-West of IrelandJohn 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. 1600-1828Clodagh 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, 1680-1750Elizabethanne 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 OperationMarc Caball – Transforming Tradition in the British Atlantic: Patrick Browne (c. 1720-1790), an Irish Botanist and Physician in the West IndiesSusan Mullaney - The Evolution of the Medical Professions in Eighteenth-Century Dublin