[PDF] The Influence Of Scottish Medicine eBook

Author : Helen M. Dingwall
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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Great names, research and innovations, celebrated centres of medical training - Scotland has always been associated with medicine.In this exciting book, Helen Dingwall introduces the history of Scottish medicine from earliest times to the present day. Offering a new synthesis of medicine and society in Scotland, she covers developments in medicine, surgery and alternative medicine in relation to the changing economic, social, political and religious background; discusses concepts of professionalism and institutionalisation; and assesses medical practitioners and patients in the general historical context.This is the first comprehensive study of Scottish medicine to be written by a historian for over twenty years. Its breadth of coverage - given both the time span and the range of background factors considered - makes A History of Scottish Medicine invaluable reading for all those with an interest in this fascinating subject."

Author : David Hamilton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1999-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781455605651

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Scotland offers almost unique opportunities for medical historians. For a conventional history, there is a rich stock of famous doctors and their discoveries. There are also the contributions of four ancient universities and three equally old colleges of physicians and surgeons. For historians of public health there is the famous struggle against the problems of the industrial revolution and the lives and works of the great sanitary reformers in Glasgow and Edinburgh. For the social historian there are equal opportunities in the diversity of the health care in the Highlands and Lowlands, the rich traditions of Scottish folk medicine and the interactions of Scottish and English medical practice. Much else can be learnt in relating Scotland's great innovative periods to her cultural and political state at the time. It is perhaps surprising therefore that there are no up-to-date accounts of any of these aspects of health and health care in Scotland. . . . there are now many new sources available and new questions to be asked. -from the Introduction In this book, author David Hamilton explores new sources and evaluates the rich history of medicinal practices in Scotland. Thus, for historians both of medicine and of Scotland, this study is necessary to more fully understand the country's history.

Author : Megan J. Coyer
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9401211736

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Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses. In tracing the international influence of Scottish medical ideas upon literary practice they ask critical questions concerning medical ethics, the limits of sympathy and the role of belles lettres in professional self-fashioning, and the development of medico-literary genres such as the medical short story, physician autobiography and medical biography. Some consider the role of medical ideas and culture in the careers, creative practice and reception of such canonical writers as Mark Akenside, Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth. By providing an important range of current scholarship, these essays represent an expansion and greater penetration of critical vision. Megan J. Coyer is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities within the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. David E. Shuttleton is Reader in Literature and Medical Culture within the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Author : Duncan Cockburn
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2012
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This thesis explores the extent to which medical and scientific knowledge developed in Scotland and the manner of the transference, exchange and circulation of ideas from one of the intellectual cores of early modern Europe to the (supposed) periphery of Europe. It examines where Scottish medical students received their education demonstrating that Scots attended universities offering a practical medical education. Scottish medical students chose Padua in larger numbers than Leiden in the early-seventeenth century contrary to views, widely held in the existing historiography, suggesting an enduring Italian influence in Scotland. Additionally, attendance at other universities (Paris and Leiden) acted as a conduit for Italian approaches. Provenance information from Scottish medical practitioners' libraries exposes the presence of editions and authors as indicators of the reception of Italian ideas. Following the reception of this knowledge, its impact on Scottish practice is examined. Medical and scientific practice is explored through teaching in Scotland's universities, the reception of Italian visitors to Scotland, vernacular medical publication and by proposing the concept of regional models of medical professionalisation. In discussing medical education at Scottish universities this thesis argues that medical teaching was more sustained and significant than previously acknowledged. The development of medical and scientific practice in Scotland is surveyed against the backdrop of three intertwined intellectual forces emanating from the Continent: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. In doing so it makes the case for an early reception of Renaissance humanism within Scottish universities. It argues that the Reformation led to the secularisation of medicine within Scottish society and presented little difficulty to the dissemination of 'Catholic' knowledge recognised to be useful. It also makes the case that the innovations associated with the Scientific Revolution in anatomy, botany and astronomy were adopted in Scotland in line with timescales across Europe.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
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ISBN : 1473005647

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This 10-hour free course explored the influences on Scottish healthcare institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
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ISBN : 1473005655

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This 10-hour free course explored the Scottish contribution to developments in healthcare during the nineteenth century.