Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

Risse, Guenter B.

ISBN 10: 0521305187 / ISBN 13: 9780521305181

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1986

[From the library of noted scholar Caroline Hannaway.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tear to jacket. Inscription to Hannaway on fep. Caroline Hannaway was a historian of medicine with close ties to the Johns Hopkins Departments of History of Medicine and History of Science and Technology. N° de réf. du vendeur 2412090064

Synopsis :

Risse portrays the experiences of the sick poor and their physicians at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 1750–1800.

Présentation de l'éditeur: This is a complete account of institutional life in an eighteenth-century British hospital. Using a multitude of surviving documents, the author presents an intimate view of the experiences of the sick poor and their physicians at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh between 1750 and 1800. The first voluntary institution of its kind founded outside London, the Infirmary is examined within the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and the tenets of British philanthropy. The experiences of patients and staff are followed from the admitting room to the various wards, the teaching section to the operating theatre. Admission routines, history-taking, diagnoses, and treatment are meticulously reconstructed with the help of registers, minutes of meetings, lecture notes, and nearly 100 individual clinical histories preserved in casebooks.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: ...
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition : 1986
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good