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Author Jacyna, L. S.

Title Philosophic whigs : medicine, science, and citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789-1848 / L.S. Jacyna.

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, ©1994.
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 213 pages)
Series The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine.
University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine -- History -- 19th century.
Thompson family.
Thompson family
University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine
Medicine -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 18th century.
Medicine -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- Political aspects -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 18th century.
Medicine -- Political aspects -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century.
Physicians -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Biography.
Physicians.
Politics, Practical.
Scotland
physicians.
politics.
MEDICAL -- History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
Politics, Practical
Medicine
Medicine -- Political aspects
Physicians
Scotland -- Edinburgh https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJt8kwmMFGyb3pfx96VXBP
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Indexed Term Medicine History
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Jacyna, L.S. Philosophic whigs. London ; New York : Routledge, ©1994 0415036143 9780415036146 (DLC) 93029944 (OCoLC)28587912
ISBN 9780203192962 (electronic bk.)
0203192966 (electronic bk.)

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