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Scottish Medicine

by Helen Dingwall, David Hamilton, Iain MacIntyre, Morrice McCrae and David Wright

ISBN: 9781780270180
Imprint: Birlinn
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Format: Hardback
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: in stock

'A joy to hold, a pleasure to read,' - Vesalius

·         'A book worth spending time with … a seemingly never-ending succession of gems lurking within its pages' - Scottish Field

Written by leading Scottish medical historians of our time, this book tells the dramatic story of how medicine in Scotland developed from its origins in prehistory. The early efforts of holy men and folk healers were superseded by the great achievements of figures such as the Monros, Robert Liston and James Syme. Men and women like Joseph Lister, David Livingstone, Sophie Jex-Blake and James Young Simpson transformed healthcare, not just in Scotland, but worldwide.

The book contains over 250 colourful images from all stages of history, many previously unpublished, including Bronze Age skulls, beautifully painted medicinal plants, surgical instruments from the Roman period, depictions of pilgrims at healing wells, illuminated manuscripts of medical texts, Elizabethan portraits, ribald cartoons from the eighteenth century, photographs of patients from nineteenth-century hospital records, and many more.

Helen Dingwall was a Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at the University of Stirling, retiring in 2005. She has written many articles and books, including Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries: Medicine in Seventeenth Century Edinburgh. David Hamilton until he retired in 2005, was a transplant surgeon in Glasgow. He now teaches medical history in St Andrews University. Among his many books is The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland. Iain Macintyre A past Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and Apothocaries' Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Edinburgh University, he has published many articles and is co-editor of the book Surgeons’ Lives. Morrice McCrae was a consultant physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. His publications include Simpson: The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer. He is currently College Historian of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. David Wright was a consultant anaesthetist in Edinburgh. He has been President of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine and of the British Society for the History of Medicine, and was the English Language Editor of Vesalius, the Journal of the International Society of the History of Medicine. He is an Apothecaries’ Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Edinburgh University.

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