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Author:

Risse, Guenter B., 1932-

Title:

New medical challenges during the Scottish enlightenment / Guenter B. Risse.

Publisher:

Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

386 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medicine--Scotland--History--18th century.
Enlightenment--Scotland.
Philosophy, Scottish--18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.
History of Medicine--Scotland.
History, 18th Century--Scotland.
Philosophy, Medical--history--Scotland.
Geneeskunde.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life.
Medicine.
Philosophy, Scottish.
Scotland.
1700 - 1799
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.

Contents:

For God and country: duties and rewards of charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary -- Debates and experiments: the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh -- They Royal Medical Society versus Campbell Denovan: Brunonianism, the press, and the medical establishment -- In the name of Hygieia and Hippocrates: a quest for the preservation of health and virtue -- Ague in eighteenth-century Scotland?: the shifting ecology of a disease -- 'Mill reek' in Scotland: construction and management of lead poisoning -- Organising medical knowledge and making clinical decisions: phthisis and student-selected case histories -- Framing gynaecology in Edinburgh: the perplexing nature of women's bodies -- Mind-body enigma: hysteria and hypochondriasis at the Edinburgh Infirmary -- Eighteenth-century medical Scotland: a select bibliography.

Summary:

Covers health studies and the history of medicine in Scotland from the 18th Century.

Series:

The Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 78

ISBN:

9789042018143
9042018143

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62778533

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)