Every Branch of the Healing Art: A History of the RCSI (Every Branch of the Healing Art: A History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
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ISBN: 9781913934545
Author | Kelly, Ronan |
Pub Date | 30/09/2023 |
Binding | Hardback |
Pages | 448 |
Country | IRL |
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Quick overview In 1784, a small group of Irish surgeons broke ranks with the Guild of Barber-Surgeons to form the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Ronan Kelly tells the story of RCSI through its contributions to a near-quarter-millennium of surgical, medical and societal change. From nineteenth-century bodysnatchers to the 1916 Rising, through two pandemics and two World Wars, with a vivid cast of characters, and reaching right to the present daythis history is a fast-moving narrative of a great Irish - and, now, global - institution.