The RCPI Heritage Centre offers a range of books for sale relating to the history of the RCPI and on the history of medicine in Ireland. These books are available directly from the Heritage Centre, to place an order please complete this order form and return it to;
Email: heritagecentre@rcpi.ie
Fax: +353 6394822
Post: RCPI Heritage Centre, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Postage for one volume is €4.50 within Ireland and €5.50 for the rest of the world. If you would like to order more than one book please contact us for the postage rate.
A History of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland 1654 – 1963 by J D H Widdess
John Widdess (1906-1982) was a medical historian, librarian and biologist. His history of RCPI, published in 1963, provides a definitive account of the first three hundred years of RCPI’s history. Drawing extensively on the archive and library of RCPI, Widdess highlights the events and personalities which have shaped the history of RCPI. Printed: Edinburgh and London, 1963
ISBN: 978-0443005183
Price: €60 + p&p
An Interim History of the Royal College of Physician of Ireland 1963-1988 by Dr David Mitchell
Dr David Mitchell served RCPI as both President and Treasurer for much of the time covered by this memoire. In it Mitchell covers a period of considerable activity within RCPI, the development of RCPI’s membership exams, the establishment of the new Institute and Faculties with RCPI. Mitchell also looks at the revivification of the library. Printed: Dublin, 1992
Price: €10 + p&p
Occupational Health in Ireland - A History by Dr John Malone
Dr John Malone is a former Dean of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine within the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. This work traces the histroy of occupational medicine in Ireland from the foundation of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in 1976. Printed: Dublin, 2011 Price: €30 + p&p
A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors with short biographies by Edward A Martin
In this volume, Dr Martin a retired doctor and Fellow of RCPI, looks at the bookplates of Irish doctors from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Having provided a background to the history of bookplates, the volume details and illustrates the bookplates of Irish Doctors over the centuries, with a short biographical sketch of each doctor mentioned.
Printed: Dublin, 2003
ISBN: 0946130398
Price: €40 + p&p (limited availability)
Irish Masters of Medicine by Davis Coakley
A Fellow of RCPI Davis Coakley has written a number of works on the history of medicine. In this work Coakley provides lively and informative biographies of 42 Irish medical personalities who have left their mark on the knowledge and practice of medicine. Starting with Allen Mullen (c.1653-1690) Coakley’s biographies chart Irish men’s contribution to medicine through the golden age of the nineteenth century, to William Hayes (1913-1994) and twentieth century breakthroughs.
Printed: Dublin, 1992
ISBN: 0948524413
Price: €20 +p&p
Robert Graves – Evangelist of Clinical Medicine by Davis Coakley
Robert Graves (1796-1853) is international recognised as one of the pioneers of modern medical practice and clinical teaching. In this biography published to mark the bicentenary of Graves’ birth, Davis Coakley looks at Graves’ career and his contribution to medicine and medical education. The volume also contains the text of four of Graves’ lectures, including his lecture Clinical Instruction which gives his philosophy on bedside teaching and clinical practice. David Coakley is a Fellow of RCPI. Printed: Dublin, 1996
Price: €10 +p&p