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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| Superior document: | Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.