New Medical Challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment

An award-winning author, Guenter B. Risse is Professor Emeritus of the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Both a physician and historian by training, he is a former President of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART I: Medical Institutions1 For God and Country: Duties and Rewards of Charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary2 Debates and Experiments: The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh3 The Royal Medical Society versus Campbell Donovan: Brunonianism, the Press, and the Medical EstablishmentPART II: Health and Disease4 In the Name of Hygieia and Hippocrates: A Quest for the Preservation of Health and Virtue 5 Ague in Eighteenth-Century Scotland? The Shifting Ecology of a Disease6 ‘Mill Reek’ in Scotland: Construction and Management of Lead PoisoningPART III: Medical Theory and Practice7 Organising Knowledge and Making Clinical Decisions: Phthisis and Student-Selected Case Histories8. Framing Gynaecology in Edinburgh: The Perplexing Nature of Women's Bodies9 Mind-Body Enigma: Hysteria and Hypochondriasis at the Edinburgh InfirmaryEighteenth-Century Medical Scotland: A Select BibliographyIndex

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