Description: Ireland's Hidden Medicine : An Exploration of Irish Indigenous Medicine from Legend and Myth to the Present Day, Paperback by Kingston, Rosarie, ISBN 1913504972, ISBN-13 9781913504977, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Ireland’s Hidden Medicine traces the path and fortunes of Irish indigenous medicine from the legendary god of medicine, Déin Chécht, to today. Unlike the great scribal medical traditions, Ireland’s indigenous medicine is based on medical knowledge passed on orally to each succeeding generation.
This journey explores the difference in worldview between biomedicine and indigenous medicine, before it sketches the changing fortunes of this indigenous tradition from the coming of Christianity, through the law tracts and the medical manuscripts of the Middle Ages, to its demise with the fall of the old Gaelic order in the seventeenth century. From there th examines how some knowledge could have disseminated within the wider community before exploring the factors that influenced its decline in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Irish indigenous medicine is like a diamond hidden in plain sight with its beauty present in the Irish landscape, festivals, and language. Yet its riches are not realized and it is ignored it to the detriment of health and wellbeing. Ireland’s Hidden Medicine is an important step in changing this.
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Book Title: Ireland's Hidden Medicine : An Exploration of Irish Indigenous Me
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Ireland's Hidden Medicine : An Exploration of Irish Indigenous Medicine from Legend and Myth to the Present Day
Publisher: Aeon Books The Limited
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.2 in
Subject: Alternative & Complementary Medicine, History, Herbal Medications, Allied Health Services / Hypnotherapy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0.4 Oz
Subject Area: Health & Fitness, Medical
Author: Rosarie Kingston
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
