Collectors of Natural Knowledge : The Edinburgh Medical Society and the Associational Culture of Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century

My thanks to Iain Milne, Head of Heritage and Sibbald Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Estela Dukan, Assistant Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, for helpful...

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Published in:Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Main Author: Jones, Catherine
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.English
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Edinburgh Medical Society
knowledge
Monro primus
politeness
Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh
sociability
PE English
PE
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2164/10575
https://doi.org/10.4997/JRCPE.2018.211
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Summary:My thanks to Iain Milne, Head of Heritage and Sibbald Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Estela Dukan, Assistant Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, for helpful advice. An early version of this paper was presented at the first workshop of the AHRC-funded ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ research network (on ‘Institutions as Curators’, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, 31 March – 1 April 2017); I am grateful to workshop participants for their questions and comments. Peer reviewed

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