Lyons, Mary Ann
(2015)
The professionalisation of Irish medicine in the generations
before Charles Lucas.
Irish Journal of Medical Science, 184.
pp. 551-553.
ISSN 0021-1265
Abstract
The educational opportunities and qualifications,
corporate structures and regulation that had become
accepted features of the Irish medical profession in the era
of Charles Lucas were the fruits of a slow process of
professionalization initiated by a handful of Irish medics
who, from the 1620s, began tackling poor standards of
medical practice in an era of medical pluralism. This paper
begins by reviewing the standard of practice in early seventeenth-
century Ireland. Through the examples of Thomas
Arthur, M.D. and John Clavell, a self-styled medic, differences
in the approaches adopted by university-trained
physicians and unorthodox practitioners are highlighted.
The succession of significant steps taken in this professionalization
process are traced, with particular emphasis
on the failed attempt to establish a Royal College of Physicians
in Dublin during the mid-1620s and the importance
of the influx of English physicians in the 1650s for the
creation of permanent corporate structures and regulation.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Medical profession in Ireland; Thomas
Arthur; Medical education; Unlicensed medical
practitioners; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: |
11509 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-015-1254-0 |
| Depositing User: |
Marian Lyons
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| Date Deposited: |
29 Oct 2019 17:27 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Irish Journal of Medical Science |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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