Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

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Richard Vaudry

Andrew Fernando Holmes

Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Richard Vaudry

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University of Toronto Press
03 March 2020

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."" 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.

By: Richard Vaudry
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781487502195
ISBN 10: 1487502192
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 03 March 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Bibliography

Richard W. Vaudry is an emeritus professor in the Department of History at The King’s University.

Reviews for Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

""As the best history books do, this one carries bracing reminders on every page of just how much the world has changed."" -- Ian McGillis * McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Alumni & Friends * ""Vaudry’s mastery of the historiography of medicine, science, and religion of the late-18th and mid-19th centuries results in a lucid, all-embracing, and satisfying assessment of Holmes’s life and varied lasting contributions."" -- J. T. H. Connor, Memorial University * American Review of Canadian Studies * “This book offers a useful addition to our understanding of the early years of Canadian medicine and medical schools, one which avoids the too-often triumphalist approaches that lionize great men and treat the success of McGill (and other subsequent institutions) as somehow inevitable.” -- David Wright, McGill University * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *