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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781780270180

RRP: £30.00

PAGES: 304

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 1, 2011

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Medicine in Scotland: An Illustrated History

Helen Dingwall

et al.

This is the first fully illustrated history of Scottish medicine since 1932. Written by the leading Scottish medical historians of our time, it 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 The early efforts of holy men and folk healers were superseded by the great achievements of figures such as the Monros, Robert Liston and James Syme.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 health care, 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 The book contains over 250 colourful images from all stages of history, many previously unpublished, including Bronze Age skulls, beautifully painted medicinal plants, surgical instruments from the Roman period, depictions of pilgrims at healing wells,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.

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Helen Dingwall

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 retired as a surgeon in Edinburgh in 2004. A past Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, 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.