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Philosophic Whigs - Medicine, Science and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789-1848 (Hardcover)
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Philosophic Whigs - Medicine, Science and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789-1848 (Hardcover)
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"Philosophic Whigs" explores the links between scientific activity
and politics and offers new insights into the form and content of
medical education in early 19th-century Scotland. Through a study
of the Thomson family, a medical dynasty active in Edinburgh from
1789 to 1848, the author describes how the Thomsons acted as
medical entrepreneurs, developing novel forms of pedagogy in their
attempt to secure their position within the competitive and
acrimonious environment of the Edinbugh Medical School. Jacyna also
considers the political allegiances and opinions of the Thomsons
and their close associates. He includes them in the wide circle of
other "philosophical Whigs", such as Francis Jeffrey and Henry
Brougham, and illustrates how Scottish professorial appointments
were often decided on the political, rather than the professional,
merits of a candidate. For the Edinburgh Whig intelligentsia,
intellectual, and especially scientific, activities were seen as a
means of expressing a political identity.
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