Format:
Online-Ressource (489 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780415036146
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9781134959327
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9781281190192
Series Statement:
Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Content:
In this fascinating study of the Edinburgh medical school in the early nineteenth century, L.S.Jacyna analyses the developments in medical education in the context of the social and political relationships within the local Whig community
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Philosophic Whiggism; Introduction; John Thomson and the lure of chemistry; The republican tradition; Science as virtue; 'Nunquam de Republica desperandum est'; Whig science; A liberal education; Conclusion; Appendix 1; 2 John Allen, physiologist and Friend of the People; Introduction; The Friend of the People; The physiology of the human mind; The animal oeconomy; Conclusion; 3 The Old Chairmaker; Introduction; Professors and patrons; Extramural teaching and the College of Surgeons
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Military surgeryThe theory and practice of medicine; General pathology; Conclusion; 4 Pathologists and practitioners; Introduction; The rational and scientific surgeon; Foreign parts; The liberal and philosophic physician; The able and experienced practitioner; Appendix A; 5 A Whig decline; The elder son; Faculty of the Glasgow College; The born professor; Russells and rustics; Unkind cuts; The science of life; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203192962
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Philosophic Whigs Medicine, Science and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789-1848
Language:
English
Keywords:
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