Subjects
Negotiated Knowledge:
Medical Periodical Publishing in Scotland, 1733–1832
Fiona A Macdonald
The History of the Book
978 1 85196 984 5: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
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During the eighteenth century, the Edinburgh Medical School made Edinburgh an internationally renowned medical centre. An entrepreneurial network of Scottish publishers founded journals and periodicals to publish the research of the city’s medical men. A quarter of John Murray’s imprints were medical books and he published the first commercial medical journal. In this innovative interdisciplinary study, Macdonald examines the development of medical periodical publishing in Scotland from 1733 to 1832, using evidence from the medical press itself as well as records of booksellers and publishers. She shows how medical and scientific societies, medical practitioners, editors and booksellers all had a hand in creating, shaping, sustaining and producing authorized medical knowledge.
Readership
History of Publishing, History of Medicine, Scottish Enlightenment, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Early Scottish Medical Press
Chapter 2 The Role of Medical Journals in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3: The Medical and Philosophical Commentaries
Chapter 4: The Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Medical Press
Chapter 5: The Role of Medical Journals in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6: The Medical Press as an Instrument of Reform
Chapter 7: The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany
Chapter 8: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
Conclusion