This collection provides 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 early Irish medical and social history across a variety of disciplines, including history of medicine, Spanish and Portuguese studies, 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.

Contents: Introduction; The role of graduate physicians in professionalising medical practice in Ireland, c.1619-1654, Mary Ann Lyons; Medical practice and Gaelic Ireland, Charlie Dillon; Medicine and miracles in the late 17th century: Bernard Connor's Evangelium Medici (1697), Liam Chambers; Medicine, religion and social mobility in 18th- and early 19th-century Ireland, Laurence Brockliss; Domestic medication and medical care in late early modern Ireland, James Kelly; Institutional medicine and state intervention in 18th-century Ireland, Andrew Sneddon; Gendered medical advice within Anglo-Irish correspondence: a case study of the Cary-Jurin letters, Wendy D. Churchill; The wider cultures of 18th-century Irish doctors, Toby Barnard; Advancing the medical career abroad: the case of Daniel O'Sullivan (1760-c.1797), Fiona Clark; Index.

Dr James Kelly is Head of the History Department at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University. Dr Fiona Clark is lecturer in Colonial Latin American Studies at the Queen's University Belfast.