Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

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Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • This free course, Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century, examines the role that Scots played in contributing to the developments in healthcare during the nineteenth ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 The rise of laboratory medicine
    • 1 The rise of laboratory medicine
    • 1.1 Transforming practice
    • 1.2 The laboratory in diagnosis
    • 2 The emergence of a modern profession?
    • 2 The emergence of a modern profession?
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Unity and conflict
    • 3 Women in medicine: doctors and nurses, 1850–1920
    • 3 Women in medicine: doctors and nurses, 1850–1920
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 The push for – and opposition to – women in medicine
    • 3.3 The reasons for – and emergence of – women working in medicine
    • 3.4 War and women in medicine
    • 4 The rise of the asylum
    • 4 The rise of the asylum
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Social factors in the growth of the asylum: industrialisation, urbanisation and migration
    • 4.3 Social factors in the growth of the asylum: social control, the family and the asylum
    • 4.4 Outside the asylum walls: limits to the primacy of the asylum as a solution
    • 4.5 Section summary
    • Conclusion
    • Next Steps
    • References
    • Acknowledgements