New medical challenges during the Scottish enlightenment / / Guenter B. Risse.
New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon. Commercial...
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Risse, Guenter B., 1932- author. New medical challenges during the Scottish enlightenment / Guenter B. Risse. Brill 2005 Amsterdam ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2005. 1 online resource (386 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon. Commercial society created new jobs, wealth and desires, that threatened contemporary values and physical health. Both luxury and poverty took their toll, spawning disease among the affluent and the poor. A number of key issues are examined, including the role of charity, medical debates and competition, vivisection, and diseases of the time – such as ‘pulmonary consumption’, ‘mill reek’ and ‘ague’. Special chapters are devoted to ‘female troubles’, ‘hysteria’ and ‘hypochondriasis’, showing the evolving relationships across gender and class lines between poor patients and their physicians. To place medical ideas and practices into proper context, the essays offer extensive background information and rediscover the lost voices of prominent physicians involved in promoting health and battling illness. Thanks to the richness of seldom-tapped archival sources – book manuscripts, consultation letters, hospital registration and management records, together with student essays, lecture notes and notebooks – the selected episodes expose a world of uncertainty, confusion and paradox. New Medical Challenges tells a wide range of stories that will be of great interest to a broad readership concerned with past health issues. Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index. Preliminary Material -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- For God and Country: Duties and Rewards of Charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary -- Debates and Experiments: The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh -- The 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 -- Index. Description based on print version record. Medicine Scotland History 18th century. Enlightenment Scotland. Philosophy, Scottish 18th century. 90-420-1814-3 ebrary Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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Risse, Guenter B., 1932- New medical challenges during the Scottish enlightenment / Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine Preliminary Material -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- For God and Country: Duties and Rewards of Charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary -- Debates and Experiments: The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh -- The 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 -- Index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- For God and Country: Duties and Rewards of Charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary -- Debates and Experiments: The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh -- The 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 -- Index. |
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