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

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 The rise of laboratory medicine
  - 1.1 Transforming practice
  - 1.2 The laboratory in diagnosis
- 2 The emergence of a modern profession?
  - 2.1 Introduction
  - 2.2 Unity and conflict
- 3 Women in medicine: doctors and nurses, 1850–1920
  - 3.1 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
  - 4.1 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
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements

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