Edinburgh Medical Journal

Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2022-02-14
Genre:
ISBN: 3752567171

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Author: Anne Whitehead
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1474400051

In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.

The Edinburgh City Hospital

The Edinburgh City Hospital
Author: J. A. Gray
Publisher: John Donald
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

From medieval leper houses and plague pits to AIDS, this book charts the history of infectious diseases in Edinburgh, and looks specifically at the Colinton Mains Farm City Hospital for infectious disease, opened by King Edward VII in 1903.

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Author: Megan Coyer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1474405614

In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.