tailieunhanh - A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH MEDICINE THEMES AND INFLUENCES

To write a global history of medicine in Scotland is virtually impossible. How can one modestly-sized volume account with any measure of adequacy for the evolution and increasing complexity of medicine and medical practice in a small, but equally complex and often disproportionately important nation? It is necessary not only to chart the progress of medical and surgical training, professionalisation, institutionalisation, practice and the experiences of the consumers of medical care, but also to assess these developments in terms of a number of complex, interacting forces, including Scottishness, Scotland, Britain and Empire | A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH MEDICINE THEMES AND INFLUENCES Helen M. Dingwall EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH MEDICINE THEMES AND INFLUENCES Helen M. Dingwall EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS For Dr W. G. Middleton with gratitude Helen Dingwall 2003 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square Edinburgh Typeset in Linotype Ehrhardt by Koinonia Ltd Bury and printed and bound in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Trowbridge Wilts A CIP record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7486 0865 6 paperback The right of Helen Dingwall to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988