The Healers

A History of Medicine in Scotland

David Hamilton

• Publisher: Pelican Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781565545304
• eBook ISBN: 9781455605651
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Scottish History

A medical history of Scotland, including practices, innovations, politics, diseases and pandemics, from medieval times to the twentieth century.
 
Scotland offers almost unique opportunities for medical historians. For a conventional history, there is a rich stock of famous doctors and their discoveries. There are also the contributions of four ancient universities and three equally old colleges of physicians and surgeons. For historians of public health there is the famous struggle against the problems of the industrial revolution and the lives and works of the great sanitary reformers in Glasgow and Edinburgh. For the social historian there are equal opportunities in the diversity of the health care in the Highlands and Lowlands, the rich traditions of Scottish folk medicine and the interactions of Scottish and English medical practice. Much else can be learnt in relating Scotland's great innovative periods to her cultural and political state at the time.  In this book, author David Hamilton explores new sources and evaluates the rich history of medicinal practices in Scotland. Thus, for historians both of medicine and of Scotland, this study is necessary to more fully understand the country's history.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Introduction
• 1: The dark ages
• 2: The middle ages: 1100-1600
• 3: The troubled years: 17th century
• 4: The rise of the professional: 18th century
• 5: The industrial revolution: 19th century (1)
• 6: The entry of the state: 19th century (2)
• 7: The rise of the state: 20th century
• Bibliography and references
• Index