Description Of Item | The manuscripts are: Review of Edinburgh Science Studies Unit up to 1978 (1978) Paper criticising David Bloor's use of Mary Douglas Grid Group Theory (late 1970s-early 1980s) Paper originally prepared for abortive volume to be edited by Malcolm Nicholson, 'Pedagogy, Practice and Politics: the Gregory-Bell Dispute and the Nature of the Early 19th Century Edinburgh Medicine' (1980s) Suppressed PhD chapter, 'Thomas Reid: The Efficient Theory of Causation, Natural Philosophy and God's Theatre of Nature' (1980s) PhD content, 'Newton Neutered: Lord Monboddo's Verdict on the Active Powers' (1980s) Draft PhD chapter, not used in final version, 'Remedies, the Explanation of Nervous Disease and the Practice of Medicine in the Writings of Whytt, Cullen and Gregory' (1981) 'Causation and Context: Two Responses to Hume in Late 18th Century Scotland' (1981) 'Olson's View of James Gregory' (1983) 'Clinical Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1750-1810' (1983-1986) Review of Gunter Risse's 'Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland' (1986) 'Hume and the Culture of Science in Early Eighteenth Century Britain' (1986) 'To Catch a Nightingale: Nursing Reforms at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1872-1900' (1994) 'The Body Politic: Bennett's Edinburgh Career, 1848-1875' (1997) 'Modernity and Edinburgh Medicine: Postgraduate Education, Scientific Medicine and the Laboratory' (2000) 'The Eighteenth Century Influence of the Edinburgh Medical School on Medical Teaching in Philadelphia, with a Brief Note on Benjamin Franklin's Edinburgh and Scottish Connections' (2000) 'Richard Poole and Institutional Provision for Edinburgh and Midlothian Lunatics During the 1820s and 1830s' (undated) 'Understanding Alexander Morison's Mental Disease Practice in Early Nineteenth Century Scotland, Part 1' (undated) 'Contested Charity: Andrew Duncan and the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, 1792-1828' (undated) 'Surgical Education and Practice in Edinburgh During the Early 1730s: An Eye-Witness Account' (undated) |