New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish h

Covers health studies and the history of medicine in Scotland from the 18th Century.

This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous diseas

Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the th

Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bête