A history of Scottish medicine: themes and influences

Helen Dingwall0748608656, 9780748608652

Including developments in medicine, surgery, and alternative medicine in relation to the changing economic and social background, the author offers a new synthesis of medicine and society in Scotland.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
CONTENTS……Page 4
ABBREVIATIONS……Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……Page 6
Introduction. Two Millennia of Medicine in Scotland……Page 8
Team DDU……Page 20
1 Scotland and Scots in the Making……Page 22
2 Early Medicine in Early Scotland……Page 30
3 Medicine in Medieval Scotland……Page 45
4 Scots and Scotland in Britain……Page 70
5 Medicine in Early-Modern Scotland……Page 79
6 Medicine in Enlightenment Scotland……Page 115
7 Scotland and Scots in Modern Scotland……Page 160
8 Public Medicine in Public Scotland……Page 171
9 Modern Medicine in Modern Scotland……Page 216
Conclusion……Page 261
Further Reading……Page 271
Select Bibliography……Page 279
Index……Page 282