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| Autore principale: | Risse, Guenter B., 1932-
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| Titolo: | New medical challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment / Guenter B. Risse. |
| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 386 p. ; 23 cm |
| Serie: | The Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 78 |
| Contiene: | Indice: Preface. Introduction. Pt. 1. Medical institutions : 1. For God and country: duties and rewards of charity at the Edinburgh infirmary 2. Debates and experiments: the Royal medical society versus Campbell Denovan: Brunonianism, the press and the medical establishment. Pt. 2. Health and disease: 4. 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 disease 6. Mill reek in Scotland: construction and management of lead poisoning. Pt. 3. Medical theory and practice: 7. Organising medical knowledge and making clinical decisions: phthisis and student-selected case histories 8. Framing gynaecology in Edinburgh: the perplexing nature of women's bodies 9. Mind-body enigma: hysteria and hypochondriasis at the Edinburgh infirmary. Eighteenth-century medical Scotland: a select bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 9042018143 |
| Discipline: | Medicina--Studi specifici. |
| Luoghi: | Scozia. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVIII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 14930 |
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