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Time: 10 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- This unit presents information about how Scottish healthcare institutions were influenced by the underlying social, economic, political and cultural contexts.
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| | 1 Policies of health: diseases, poverty and hospitals
- 1.1 Introduction Resource
- The ‘welfare state’ and its future are frequently a topic of passionate debate. Its philosophy, best embodied in the expression ‘from the cradle to the grave’, is based on the principle that one of the...
- 1.2 The poor as patients Resource
- Patients' accounts of hospital life in the early modern period are notoriously thin on the ground, so historians have turned to other sources. These include hospital registers, which became more detailed...
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| | 2 Old and new models of the body
- 2.1 The sensible body Resource
- For centuries, and well into the early modern period, sense experience, including seeing, hearing and touching, as well as bodily movement, had been explained according to the precepts of Galenic physiology...
- 2.2 The popularisation of ideas Resource
- One of the media that helped to popularise the importance of nerves and the concept of sensibility was to be found outside medical encounters, in a new and extremely successful literary genre, the ‘novel...
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- 3 Conclusion Resource
- In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a series of innovative models of the body was produced, from the mechanical to the mathematical to the sensible. As groundbreaking anatomical investigation...
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