Bookedited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton.
Contents:
1.Introduction: Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832 / Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
2. 'Nothing is so soon forgot as pain': reading agony in Adam Smith's 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 re-establishing 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
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