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
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