History of medicine Books

Book SynopsisFor Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia.Trade Review”…an excellent and useful book.” - in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005 “…innovative historical focus […] eloquent descriptions […] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the “inescapable tension” that surgeons faced…” - in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004 “…a very valuable and interesting book.” - in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158 “…this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing ‘The Fear of Pain.’” - in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Prologue Introduction: ‘Painful, difficult, bloody, tedious and dangerous’ 1 ‘Surgeons and operators’: The Surgeons’ World 2 ‘Modern surgeons’: Medical Knowledge and Surgery 3 ‘Capital operations’: Major Surgery 4 ‘A hard set of butchers’?: Wartime Surgery, 1793-1815 5 ‘In process of cure’: Hospitals and Surgical Healing 6 ‘Gennelmen!’: Medical Students 7 ‘The living subject’: Surgeons and Patients 8 ‘The cutting part’: In the Operating Room 9 ‘Our little patient’: Surgeons and Children 10 ‘Fortitude’: The Patient’s Experience of Surgery 11 ‘The rights of pain’: The Acceptance of Anaesthesia Epilogue ‘Long fixed in the memory’: The Legacy of Painful Surgery Image Credits Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and gender in their practice. It revises traditional whiggish and linear accounts of professional advancement, but it also moves beyond the classic revisionist tradition, which documents the emergence of a society divided along lines of race and gender, by providing examples of cultural crossover and medical pluralism. It also provides a perspective on a broad historical process within which to understand present debates about the most appropriate health policies in South Africa today.Trade Review”This collection provides a wide-ranging, sophisticated, and well-crafted overview of the development of the South African doctor.” - in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 80, 2006 “…a book rich in interest, well written and edited. It provides important insights…” - in: The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2005 “…an enjoyable read, evenly written and edited. The narrative flows smoothly, and the smaller arguments and case studies are concise, detailed, and always linked to the overall themes of the book.” - in: Wellcome History, Issue 30, Autumn 2005 “The collection not only offers a glimpse into some of the conditions that led to South Africa’s current medical system, but also establishes a foundation for future research.” in: “…well researched…” – Tiffany F. Jones, Kingston, Ont., in: H-Safrica, March, 2005 “…this long-awaited and excellent addition […] blows away many of the traditional, whiggish historical accounts of medical professionalization whilst clarifying our understanding of the evolution of health policies and practices […] a valuable text for medical, social, and political historians.” - in: The Social History of Medicine, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2005 "The Cape Doctor is well researched and provides a wealth of data on a large variety of medical-historical topics, inter alia, the origins of the Somerset and other early hospitals, medical associations, the South African Medical Journal, and Cape medical education. The authors are to be commended on a project well done." – Professor Dan J. Ncayiyana, Editor, South African Medical Journal, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape TownTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Note on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Terminology Abbreviations 1 Harriet DEACON: Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century 2 Harriet DEACON: The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 3 Harriet DEACON: Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 4 Howard PHILLIPS: Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 5 Harriet DEACON and Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN: Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 6 Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN: Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape 7 Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN: ‘Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners’ Professionalisation 1860-1910 8 Harriet DEACON, Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN, Sally SWARTZ and Felicity SWANSON: Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity 9 Anne DIGBY: Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c. 1860-1910 10 Howard PHILLIPS: The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays. They address the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discuss their particular forms of production and distribution. Drawing predominantly on British and Dutch cases, the curious ‘biographies’ of modern drugs like streptomycin, taxol and interferon are reviewed, the shifting boundaries between medicines and toxic substances are explored, and remedial strategies such as contraceptives are scrutinised. This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in 1998, explores cultures of remedies from a comparative perspective.Trade Review”All fourteen papers […] are well documented…” - in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004, Vol. 78Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Godelieve van Heteren, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Tilli Tansey Changing Places: Illicit Drugs, Medicines, Tobacco and Nicotine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Virginia Berridge Pharmacists, Druggists and the Spirit of Thorbecke: The Shaping of the Dutch Pharmacy, 1865-c. 1920 Frank Huisman The 'Dutch Drugstore’ as an Attempt to Reshape Pharmaceutical Practice: The Conflict between Ethical and Commercial Pharmacy in Dutch Cultures of Medicines Rein Vos Community Pharmacy in Great Britain: Mediation at the Boundary between Professional and Lay Care, 1920 to 1995 Stuart Anderson Homoeopathy and Its Concern for Purity: The Dutch Case in the Early-Twentieth Century Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra Drugs for Healthy People: The Culture of Testing Hormonal Contraceptives for Women and Men Nelly Oudshoorn Contrasting Cultures of Contraception: Birth Control Clinics and the Working-Classes in Britain between the Wars Kate Fisher 'Public Spirited and Enterprising Volunteers’: The Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control and the British Clinical Trials of the Contraceptive Pill, 1959-1973 Lara Marks Hygienic Articles, Patent Medicines and Rubber Goods’: Markets and Meanings in Early Twentieth Century Netherlands Willem de Blécourt “Streptomycin in Postwar Britain: A Cultural History of a Miracle Drug Alan Yoshioka About Media, Audiences and Marketing Medicines: The Interferons Toine Pieters The Billion Dollar Molecule: Taxol in Historical and Theoretical Perspective Vivien Walsh & Jordan Goodman Afterword. Remedies: Who Cares? Remedies, Care and Cultures of Healing in the Twentieth Century Godelieve van Heteren Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial territories – whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum. Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures.Trade Review"The articles here are of a consistently high standard, and form a stimulating and rewarding collection Healing bodies, saving souls is a welcome contribution that demonstrates the many fresh insights that can be gained from the proper use and analysis of missionary sources. It will be of considerable value to students, specialists, and generalists alike, and it provides a firm basis for future work…" – in: Medical History 51/4 (2007), pp. 547-551 "[E]specially valuable to scholars of the specific regions discussed, yet also to students and anyone seeking an indication of the breadth of missionary medicine’s influence in the 19th and 20th centuries… a noteworthy contribution to the field." – in: Wellcome History 37 (Spring 2008)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements David HARDIMAN: Introduction Michael C. LAZICH: Seeking Souls through the Eyes of the Blind: The Birth of the Medical Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century China Timothy MAN-KONG WONG: Local Voluntarism: The Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society in Hong Kong, 1842–1923 John R. STANLEY: Professionalising the Rural Medical Mission in Weixian, 1890–1925 David HARDIMAN: Christian Therapy: Medical Missionaries and the Adivasis of Western India, 1880–1930 James H. MILLS: Colonialism, Cannabis and the Christians: Mission Medical Knowledge and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–4 Linda Beer KUMWENDA: African Medical Personnel of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in Northern Rhodesia Michael JENNINGS: ‘A Matter of Vital Importance’: The Place of the Medical Mission in Maternal and Child Healthcare in Tanganyika, 1919–39 Uoldelul Chelati DIRAR: Curing Bodies to Rescue Souls: Health in Capuchin’s Missionary Strategy in Eritrea, 1894–1935 Shobana SHANKAR: The Social Dimensions of Christian Leprosy Work among Muslims: American Missionaries and Young Patients in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1920–40 John MANTON: Administering Leprosy Control in Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1945–67: A Case Study in Government–Mission Relations Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisStanding armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society. British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, ‘a good thing’. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested. Sometimes changes were imposed that cannot be characterised as improvements. British Military and Naval Medicine also points to opportunities for further research in this exciting field of study.Trade Review"British Military and Naval Medicine is thus an important contribution to medical, naval and military history, one which increases our understanding of the impact of maritime exploration and naval service on sailors and on wider society." – in: International Journal of Maritime History XX/1 (June 2008), 429–431 "[T]his collection… has to be seen as a welcome addition to the literature, being of interest as much to the general public as to the academic reader. As well as providing a good introduction to a broad range of topics in military and naval medicine in the period concerned, it usefully indicates areas for further research, with a key strength lying in the abundant endnote referencing of secondary and archival sources." – in: Wellcome History 39 (Winter 2008), 21-22 "[T]hese essays contribute to our knowledge of the details of British medical practice during wartime as well as during peace, and establish that the relationship between civilian and naval or military medicine is closer than often assumed… a well-considered collection, demonstrating the broad scope of military and naval medicine during a fundamental period of British warfare." – in: Social History of Medicine 22/3 (2009), 629-63 "The essays… build on those findings and highlight areas for future research.… there can be no doubt that readers will find much material here to inform their own conclusions…" – in: Medical History, 54 (2010), 410–411Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Geoffrey L. HUDSON, Introduction: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600–1830 J.D. ALSOP, Warfare and the Creation of British Imperial Medicine, 1600–1800 Paul E. KOPPERMAN, The British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755–83: A Medical Perspective Mark HARRISON, Disease and Medicine in the Armies of British India, 1750–1830: The Treatment of Fevers and the Emergence of Tropical Therapeutics Eric GRUBER VON ARNI, Who Cared? Military Nursing during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642–60 Philip R. MILLS, Privates on Parade: Soldiers, Medicine and the Treatment of Inguinal Hernias in Georgian England Patricia Kathleen CRIMMIN, British Naval Health, 1700–1800: Improvement over Time? Margarette LINCOLN, The Medical Profession and Representations of the Navy, 1750–1815 Christine STEVENSON, From Palace to Hut: The Architecture of Military and Naval Medicine Geoffrey L. HUDSON, Internal Influences in the Making of the English Military Hospital: The Early-Eighteenth-Century Greenwich Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisControl and the Therapeutic Trial examines the development of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) from the eclectic collection of methodologies available to practitioners in the early-twentieth century. In particular, it explores the British Medical Research Council’s (MRC) exploitation of the term ‘controlled’ to help establish its own ‘controlled trials’ as the gold standard for therapeutic evaluation, and, ultimately, the MRC itself as the proper authority to adjudicate on therapeutic efficacy.Trade Review"a fascinating conclusion…" – in: SciTech Book News, June 2008 "…the book is indeed an impressive attempt… Control and the Therapeutic Trial successfully questions the solemn rigidity of a contemporary scientific truth…. The book is a welcome addition to the scholarship dealing with social constructions of truths. The content, along with the easy style of writing, should ideally attract readers of diverse interest: historians of medicine and science, practising physicians as also non-specialist readers." – in: Wellcome History 41 (2009), 20-21 "In this excellent book Martin Edwards demonstrates that words with histories are never innocent… Edwards provides a historically rich dissection of how the controlled trial became the preferred tool to produce knowledge that could direct practice… This book fills a gap in our understanding of what has been called the therapeutic revolution." – in: Metascience 18 (2009), 437–441 "Edwards…. does illustrate a fundamental shift of sense over the three decades covered by this study… Edwards draws on a generation of scholarship, including several well-known but unpublished dissertations." – in: Medical History, 54 (2010), 421–422Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on National Archives Source Material Introduction 1 No Word is Innocent: The History and Rhetoric of Controlled Trials prior to 1948 2 Good, Bad or Offal? The Rhetoric of Control in the Evaluation of Raw Pancreas Therapy 3 Bright Lights, Smoky Cities: Light Therapy in 1920s Britain 4 Control and the MRC’s Evaluation of Serum Therapy for Pneumonia, 1929–34 5 Keeping it Controlled: The MRC’s Trials of Immunisation against Influenza 6 Whose Words are they Anyway? The Contrasting Strategies of Almroth Wright and Bradford Hill to Capture the Nomenclature of Controlled Trials 7 Conclusion: What’s Controlled about the Controlled Trial? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJohn Wesley’s Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular – and controversial – status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period’s most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley’s work in the context of his theology, ‘A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine’ extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine.Trade Review"An interesting sidelight into a rarely studied aspect of Wesley’s make up." – in: SciTech Book News, June 2008 "A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine does a nice job in capturing the whole of Wesley’s thought—not only the theological but the medicinal…. I am reminded of just how closely Wesley and the early Methodists viewed the relationship between spiritual and physical well being. I am grateful to Deborah Madden’s engaging work for helping me see this connection more clearly." – in: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63/4 (October 2008) "Deborah Madden’s A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine is a valuable addition to The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, as it is the first book-length, scholarly study devoted to providing a range of detailed biographical and cultural contexts for comprehending the significance of Wesley’s medical manual. [A] useful study that will be of interest to anyone concerned with the inter-relationship between religion and medicine in the period." – in: Social History of Medicine, June 2009 "In an impressive monograph, notable for the thoroughness with which most of the recent secondary literature has been assimilated, Deborah Madden offers a systematic study of Wesley’s motivation and its grounding in his primitive Christianity… one of the real strengths of Madden’s analysis is her identification of the several levels at which Wesley’s eclectic theology did shape his medical priorities… she is surely correct, in principle, to say that […] Wesley’s eyes were focused on the natural, not the supernatural." – in: Medical History 53/4 (2009), 618-619Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements PART I: THE MEDICAL HOLISM OF PRIMITIVE PHYSIC 1 Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method 2 John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety 3 Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? 4 Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules PART II: PRIMITIVE PHYSIC: ‘A COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS’ 5 Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life 6 Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat did you do when you fell ill in fifteenth-century Florence? How did you get the medicines that you needed at a price you could afford? What would you find when you entered an apothecary’s shop? This richly detailed study of the Speziale al Giglio in Florence provides surprising answers, demonstrating the continued importance of highly personalised medical practice late into the fifteenth century.Trade Review"The result is a rich bottom-up account, full of examples while addressing major themes of general interest. […] the authors’ industry and imagination in making account books speak is remarkable." - Harold J. Cock, Brown University, USA, in: The European Legacy, April 2013, pp. 380-1Table of ContentsList of Images List of Tables List of Charts Abbreviations Glossary Currencies, Weights and Measures Introduction and Acknowledgements Selling Health The Shop and the City Keeping Shop Customers and Credit People and their Purchases Recovering Debts Products Wax Sugar and Spices Medicines Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhere do our distant ancestors come from, and which routes did they travel around the globe as hunter–gatherers in prehistoric times? Genomics provides a fascinating insight into these questions and unlocks a mass of information carried by strands of DNA in each cell of the human body. For Indigenous peoples, scientific research of any kind evokes past – and not forgotten – suffering, racial and racist taxonomy, and, finally, dispossession. Survival of human cell lines outside the body clashes with traditional beliefs, as does the notion that DNA may tell a story different from their own creation story. Extracting and analysing DNA is a new science, barely a few decades old. In the medical field, it carries the promise of genetically adapted health-care. However, if this is to be done, genetic identity has to be defined first. While a narrow genetic definition might be usable by medical science, it does not do justice to Indigenous peoples’ cultural identity and raises the question of governmental benefits where their genetic identity is not strong enough. People migrate and intermix, and have always done so. Genomics trace the genes but not the cultures. Cultural survival – or revival – and Indigenous group cohesion are unrelated to DNA, explaining why Indigenous leaders adamantly refuse genetic testing. This book deals with the issues surrounding ‘biomapping’ the Indigenous, seen from the viewpoints of discourse analysts, historians, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, museum curators, health-care specialists, and Native researchers.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Overview Susanne Berthier–Foglar: Human Genomics and the Indigenous Sheila Collingwood–Whittick: Indigenous Peoples and Western Science Sandrine Tolazzi: Reconstruction of Indigenous Identities in the Twentieth Century Defining and Mapping Renate Bartl: Genetic Blood Testing of Native Americans in the USA Ulia Popova–Gosart: Indigenous Peoples: Attempts to Define Frank Kressing: Screening Indigenous Peoples’ Genes: The End of Racism or Postmodern Bio-Imperialism? Séverine Gauthier-Labourot: No Matter How White or Black the Skin, How Pure the Blood: Cherokee Identity and the 2007 Vote Marie-Claude Strigler: Tribal Communities and Genetic Research: Concerns and Expectations Yu-Yueh Tsai: The Geneticization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Biomedicine: On the “Taiwan Bio-Bank” Surviving and Resisting Gerald Vizenor: Genome Survivance Jarosław Derlicki: The Edge of Extinction: Ethnic Survival Among the Yukaghirs of Northern Yakutia Sheila van Holst Pellekaan: Genetic Signatures of Australia’s First Peoples Survive Recent History Andrea Zittlau: Nutrition and the Indigenous Body: A Genetic Concept of Food Opposing and Reclaiming Sheila Collingwood–Whittick: Indigenous Opposition to Genetics Research: Views from Aboriginal Australia Emma Kowal: Disturbing Pasts and Promising Futures: The Politics of Indigenous Genetic Research in Australia Emma Kowal and Ian Anderson: Difficult Conversations: Talking About Indigenous Genetic Health Research in Australia Matthew Rimmer: Travelling Bones: The Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains Lisa O’Sullivan: Material Legacies: Indigenous Remains and Contested Values in UK Museum Collections Natasha Golbeck and Wendy D. Roth: Aboriginal Claims: DNA Ancestry Testing and Changing Concepts of Indigeneity Notes on Contributors and Editors Index

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Book SynopsisDivine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians’ theories about disease and its prevention supported contemporary concerns that sinfulness was rampant. Particularly disturbing to the godly were sins deemed most threatening to the social order: lasciviousness, ungodliness, and unruliness, all of which were most clearly and threateningly manifested in the urban poor. Physicians’ medical theories and suggestions for curbing some of the most feared and destructive diseases in the seventeenth century, most notably plague and syphilis, focused on reforming or incarcerating the sick and sinful poor. Doing so helped propel physicians to an elevated position in the hierarchy of healers competing for patients in seventeenth-century England.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: ‘Physick keeps her very bare’: Why Would Anyone See a Doctor in the Seventeenth Century? Part I: The Doctors ‘God heals, and the Doctor takes the fee’: Combatting the Negative Reputation ‘A Sacred Anatomy Both of Soul and Body’: Godly Physicians in Sermon Literature ‘Medling Fops’ with their ‘Gaggling Goose-quils’: The Competition ‘Every man his own doctor’: Physicians and the Printing Boom Part II: The Distempers ‘A Christian’s Groans Under the Body of Sin’: The Pox and the Pious Physician ‘The Baneful Source of all our Woe’: Poxed Women and Public Health ‘A Broom in the Hand of the Almighty’: The Plague and the Unruly Poor Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses.Trade Review"Coyer and Shuttleton, by bringing together psychiatrists, literary scholars, historians, librarians and doctors, illuminate a neglected corner of medical humanities. [...] The virtue of this book is its ability to show how perspectives interwove and advanced as - and because - they were articulated together through contemporary rhetoric. [...] The mark of a succesful text lies within its pages, and in the vistas it opens for research. Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 achieves such a success." - Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming), in: Scottish Literary Review, vol. 7 no. 2 (Dec. 2015). "Like many such collections, some of the transitions between sections can feel a little bumpy, but the standard of individual essays is generally high. Inevitably there is much more work to do in this field, and many questions are raised as well as resolved here [...] overall this book provides a valuable and unique resource for anyone interested in the Scottish Enlightenment’s literary and medical history." - Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK), in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2015, pp. 603-605.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. “Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832” Megan J. Coyer & David E. Shuttleton 2. “‘Nothing is so soon forgot as pain’: Reading Agony in The Theory of Moral Sentiments” Craig Franson 3. “The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility” Wayne Wild 4. “The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to the Re-Establishing of Epigenetic Embryology” Robin Dix 5. “Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography” Catherine Jones 6. “The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death” Rhona Brown 7. “‘Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy” Allan Beveridge 8. “Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine” Megan J. Coyer 9. “Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth” Katherine Inglis 10. “Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford” Lindsay Levy 11. “An Account of... William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography” David E. Shuttleton 12. “Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian Sociology, America and Mass Culture in the Nineteenth Century” Gavin Budge Index

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