Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832

‘Nothing is so soon forgot as pain’: Reading Agony in The Theory of Moral Sentiments

The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility

The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to the Re-Establishing of Epigenetic Embryology

Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography

The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death

‘Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy

Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine

Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth

Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford

An Account of ... William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography

Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian Sociology, America and Mass Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Index

Scotland and the 19th-Century World

Uneasy Subjects

Pointed Encounters

Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity

Myths and the Mythmaker