Medicine, Law and Public Policy in Scotland : : c. 1850-1990 / / Krista Maglen, Mark Freeman, Eleanor Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Freeman, Mark,; Gordon, Eleanor,; Maglen, Krista,
• MitwirkendeR: Cameron, Anne,; Collins, Kenneth,; Davidson, Roger,; Davis, Gayle,; Dupree, Marguerite,; Elliot, Rosemary,; Ferguson, Angus H.,; Freeman, Mark,; Gordon, Eleanor,; Jenkinson, Jacqueline,; Levitt, Ian,; Maglen, Krista,; Stewart, John,; Sutton, David,; Trainor, Rick,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables

Marks the contribution of Anne Crowther to scholarship in British historyFocussing on Scotland, this collection draws together the three main strands of Anne Crowther's academic research – welfare, medicine and legal history – and reflects the range of her historical scholarship.Based on original research, the essays in this book examine important developments in key Scottish institutions, question enduring myths about the nature of Scottish legal and medical practice, and explore the intersections between medicine, the law and public policy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword. Anne Crowther: An Appreciation -- Acknowledgements -- Editors’ Introduction -- 1 The Provision and Control of Medical Relief: Urban Central Scotland in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2 Charity Dispensaries, Medical Education and Domiciliary Medical Care for the Poor in Edinburgh and Glasgow, c.1870–1914 -- 3 Welfare Agencies and Migrant Settlers in Scotland, c.1919–1922 -- 4 The Jews of Glasgow: Aspects of Health and Welfare -- 5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Local Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Scotland -- 6 Public Information, Private Lives: Dr James Craufurd Dunlop and the Collection of Vital Statistics in Scotland, 1904–1930 -- 7 Exploring the Myth of a Scottish Privilege: A Comparison of the Early Development of the Law on Medical Confidentiality in Scotland and England -- 8 Law, Medicine and the Treatment of Homosexual Offenders in Scotland, 1950–1980 -- 9 ‘Boy’ Clerks and Scottish Health Administration, 1867–1956 -- 10 Central Policy and Local Independence: Integration, Health Centres and the NHS in Scotland 1948–1990 -- Anne Crowther: List of Main Publications -- Index