Andrew Fernando Holmes : : Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal / / Richard Vaudry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Vaudry, Richard ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes’s name is synonymous with the McGill medical faculty and with the discovery of a congenital heart malformation known as the "Holmes heart." He also played a critical role in the creation of a scientific culture in early-nineteenth-century Montreal. Born in captivity at Cadiz, Spain, Holmes immigrated to Lower Canada in the first decade of the nineteenth century. He arrived in a province that was experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural change as the result of a long process of integration into the British Atlantic world. A transatlantic perspective, therefore, undergirds this biography, from an exploration of how Holmes’s family members were participants in an Atlantic world of trade and consumption, to explaining how his educational experiences at Edinburgh and Paris informed his approach to the practice of medicine, medical education, and medical politics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Anniversary -- 1. From Cadiz to Lower Canada: Holmes’s Atlantic World -- 2. “Well and Sufficiently Taught” -- 3. The Origins of McGill Medicine -- 4. Family and Religious Life -- 5. “The Wonders of Creation” -- 6. McGill and the Politics of Medicine -- 7. The Practice of Medicine -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index