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Aberdeen, Ishbel, Lady, in Our Farm Servant Girls. (Aberdeen, 1882) More details ...
Alexander, Wendy, in First Ladies of medicine: the origins, education and destination of early women medical graduates of Glasgow University (University of Glasgow, Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Glasgow, 1987) More details ...
Alexander, Wendy "Early Glasgow women medical graduates" , in Gordon, Eleanor and Breitenbach., Esther edd. The world is ill-divided. (Edinburgh, 1990) More details ...
Anderson, Michael Donald, Morse "High Fertility, High Emigration, Low Nuptiality: Adjustment Processes in Scotland's Demographic Experience, 1861-1914" , in Population Studies , vol.47 (1993) More details ...
Auerbach, Charlotte, in Genetics in the Atomic Age. (Edinburgh, 1956) More details ...
Balfour, Lady Frances, in Lady Victoria Campbell - a Memoir. (Hodder and Stoughton, 2nd ed, London, 1911) More details ...
Balfour, Lady Frances, in Dr. Elsie Inglis. (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1918) More details ...
Balfour, Margaret Ida, in The work of medical women in India. (H. Milford, London, 1929) More details ...
Bawcutt, PriscillaLuuk, Houwen ""Holy Words for Healing": Some Early Scottish Charms and their Ancient Religious Roots" , in Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Peeters, Leuven, 2012) More details ...
Beveridge, A. "Britain's Siberia. Mary Coutts's account of the asylum system" , in Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, vol.35:2 (2005) More details ...
Bigman, Fran "Abortion. past or future?: The 1930s writings of Naomi Mitchison" , in Women's History Magazine, vol.73 Autumn (2013) More details ...
Blackwell, Elizabeth, in A Curious Herbal. Containing 500 Cuts of the Most Useful Plants Which Are Now Used in the Practice of Physick. (Samuel Harding, London, 1737) More details ...
Bristow, E., in Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain since 1700. (Gill and Macmillan, London, 1977) More details ...
Bryce, J.D., in The Glasgow Magdalene Asylum, its past and present: With Relative Facts and Suggestions (David Bryce, Glasgow, 1859) More details ...
Buchan, James, in The Expendable Mary Slessor (Saint Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 1980) More details ...
Buchan, James, in Peacemaker of Calabar: The Story of Mary Slessor (Religious and Moral Press, Exeter, 1984) More details ...
Cahill, Audrey Fawcett, in Between the Lines: letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit (Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1999) More details ...
Cameron, Anne "From Ritual to Regulation? The Development of Midwifery in Glasgow and the West of Scotland c.1740-1840" (University of Glasgow PhD thesis, Glasgow, 2003) More details ...
Campbell, M.M. "Few Scottish Women's Hospitals from their Foundation to 1948" , in Medical History , vol.27 (1983) More details ...
Checkland, Olive "Material and Child Welfare" , in Olive , Checkland and M., Lamb edd. Health care as Social History: the Glasgow Case (Aberdeen UP, Aberdeen, 1982) More details ...
Christian, CarolGladys, Plummer, in God and One Redhead: Mary Slessor of Calabar (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1970) More details ...
Clark, , HelenElizabeth, Carnegie, eds., in She Was Aye Workin. Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow (White Cockade Publishing, Oxford, 2003) More details ...
Cormack, A.A., in Susan Carnegie 1744-1821: Her Life of Service. (A.A. Cormack, Aberdeen, 1966) More details ...
Coutts, Mary, in Britain's Siberia. The High Statistics of Insanity Explained by a Certified Lunatic (Century Press, London, 1909) More details ...
Cowan, S., in The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the Journal of Bourgoyne Her Physician. (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1907) More details ...
Crofton, Eileen, in The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 1997) More details ...
Culpeper, N., in Directory for Midwives: or, A guide for women, in their conception, bearing and suckling their children. (Edinburgh, 1651) More details ...
Davidson, R. "Searching for Mary, Glasgow: contract tracing for sexually-transmitted diseases in 20th century Scotland" , in Social History of Medicine 9 (1996) More details ...
Davidson, Roger "'A Scourge to be firmly gripped': the Campaign for V.D. Controls in Inter-War Scotland" , in Social History of Medicine, vol.6/2 August (1993) More details ...
Davidson, Thomas M., in The Mary Slessor Window: Descriptive Notes and Short Biography (Dundee, 1924) More details ...
Davis, GayleRoger, Davidson "'A Fifth Freedom' or 'Hideous Atheistic Expediency'? The Medical Community and Abortion Law Reform in Scotland c.1960--1978" , in Medical History, vol.50:1 (2006) More details ...
Davis, Gayle, in 'The Cruel Madness of Love': Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland 1880-1930 (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2008) More details ...
De Navarro, Antonia, in The Scottish Women's Hospital at the French Abbey of Royaumont (G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1917) More details ...
DesBrisay, Gordon "City Limits: Female Philanthropists and Wet Nurses in Seventeenth-Century Scottish Towns" , in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol.new ser 8 (1997) More details ...
Dobash, Rebecca EmmersonRussell, Dobash, in Violence against Wives: A Case Against the Patriarchy (Free Press, New York, 1979) More details ...
Dougall, Rena E. "Perceptions of change: an oral history of district nursing in Scotland, 1940-1999" (PhD thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2002) More details ...
Dow, D.A., in The Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, Glasgow 1886-1986 (Royal Samaritan Hospital Centenary Committee, 1986) More details ...
Dow, D.A., in Redlands House. Hospital, Health and Home (Scottish Ambulances Service, 1985) More details ...
Dow, D.A. "Rival Conceptions: The Origins of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital" , in The College Courant, vol.74 More details ...
Dow, D.A., in The Rottenrow. The History of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital 1834-1934 (Parthenon, Camforth, 1984) More details ...
Dow, D.A. "The Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women 1886-1986" , in Scottish Medical Journal , vol.31 (1986) More details ...
Dow, D.A., M.M. LeitchA.F., Maclean, in From Almoner to Social Work. Social Work at Glasgow Royal Infirmary 1932-1982 (Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1982) More details ...
Duncker, Patricia, in James Miranda Barry (Picador, London, 2000) More details ...
Dunlop, A.I. "The Church of Scotland Ministers' war memorial and orphan funds" , in A.I., Dunlop ed. The Scottish Ministers' widows' Fund 1743-1993 (1993) More details ...
Elliott, Kirsten "Birth Control Clinics in Scotland, 1926-c.1939" , in Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, vol.34:2 (2014) More details ...
Gaffney, R. "Women as Doctors and Nurses" , in O., Checkland and M., Lamb edd. Health Care as Social History: The Glasgow Case (Aberdeen, 1982) More details ...
Guyer-Kordesch, J.R., Ferguson "Medical careers: historical dilemmas" , in Mary R., Masson and Deborah, Simonton edd. Women and Higher Education: Past, Present and Future: proceedings of an international conference held to mark the centenary of the admission of women to degree study at the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1996) More details ...
Hardy, L.K., in An exploration of the career histories of leading female nurses in England and Scotland (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1983) More details ...
Holmes, Heather "An abject and deplorable existence: Problems faced by Irish women potato workers in Scotland in the early twentieth century" , in Folk Life, vol.38 (1999) More details ...
Holmes, Rachel, in Scanty Particulars: The Life of Dr. James Barry. (Viking, London, 2002) More details ...
Holohan, A.M. "St. Kilda: childbirth and the women of the Main Street" , in Scottish Medical Journal, vol.30 (1985) More details ...
Houston, R.A. "Madness and gender in the long eighteenth century" , in Social History, vol.27:3, Oct. (2002) More details ...
Hunter, Evelyn, in The Scottish Women's Handbook (Stramullion, Edinburgh, 1987) More details ...
Hutchinson, Iain "Institutionalization of mentally-impaired children in Scotland c.1855-1914" , in History of Psychiatry, vol.22:4 (2011) More details ...
Hutchinson, Iain "Disability in nineteenth-century Scotland - the case of Marion Brown" , in University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History, vol.5, Dec (2002) More details ...
Illingworth, Sir Charles "William Hunter's Influence on obstetrics" , in Scottish Medical Journal , vol.15 (1973) More details ...
Irwin, M.H., in Women Shop Assistants: How they live and work (Scottish Council for Women's Trades (SCWT), Glasgow, 1901) More details ...
Jex-Blake, Sophia, in Medical Education of Women: A Comprehensive Survey of Present Facilities (1888) More details ...
Jex-Blake, Sophia, in Medical Women: a thesis and a history (Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1886) More details ...
Johnson, M.O., in Madness and gender in the 19th century: a case study of a Scottish ayslum (University of Strathclyde D. Phil thesis, 1995) More details ...
Kemmer, D. "Values and the Fertility Decline: The Case of Scotland" , in Critical Social Research , vol.2 (1986) More details ...
Kuran, Natasha "Popular Medicine and Treatment of Disease in Eighteenth-Century Scotland" , in Canadian Journal of Herbalism, vol.23:1 (2002) More details ...
Laurence, Margot, in Shadow of Swords, a Biography of Elsie Inglis (Joseph, London, 1971) More details ...
Leneman, Leah "Smith v.Clark and Clark v.Smith: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Doctors in Dispute" , in Medical History, vol.45 (2001) More details ...
Leneman, Leah, in In the Service of Life: the story of Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospitals (Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1994) More details ...
Leneman, Leah, in Elsie Inglis (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1998) More details ...
Lincoln, C.S. "Medical Women: Sophia Jex Blake and Elsie Inglis" , in Edinburgh Historical Magazine, vol.3 (1990) More details ...
Lindsay, Reid "Using Oral History in Midwifery Research" , in British Journal of Midwifery, vol.12:4 More details ...
Livingstone, W.P., in Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1915) More details ...
Livingstone, W.P., in Mary Slessor the White Queen (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1933) More details ...
Logan, W., in An Exposure, from Personal Observation of Female Prostitution (Glasgow, 1843) More details ...
Luke, James, in Pioneering in Mary Slessor's Country (Epworh Press, London, 1929) More details ...
Lutzker, E. "Edith Pechey-Phipson, M.D.: Untold Story" , in Medical History , vol.11 (1967) More details ...
MacAlpine, I.R., Hunter "Porphyra in the royal houses of Stuart, Hanover and Prussia" , in British Medical Journal, vol.1 (1968) More details ...
MacDonald, S.W. "The witch doctors of Scotland" , in Scottish Medical Journal, vol.43 (1998) More details ...
Macdonald, S.W. "The Bargarran witchcraft trial: a psychiatric assessment" , in Scottish Medical Journal , vol.41 (1996) More details ...
MacNalty, Sir Arthur "Maladies of Mary, Queen of Scots" , in Medical History, vol.5 (1961) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K "Wet-nursing in Scotland 1500-1800" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.1 (1984) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K. "Birth of a Profession: the history of midwives in Scotland" , in The Nursing Mirror (1983) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K. "Birth of a Profession: the history of midwives in Scotland" , in The Nursing Mirror & Midwifes Journal (1983) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K., in Virgins and Viragos: a history of women in Scotland from 1080-1980. (Collins, London, 1983) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K. "Wet-nursing in Scotland 1500-1800" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.1 (1984) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K. "History of Nursing: Scottish hospitals in the 18th century" , in Nursing Mirror & Midwives Journal (1983) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind Kay "Take of dragon's blood two drachms: the treatment of pregnancy and miscarriage in seventeenth-century Scotland" , in The Nursing Mirror, vol.15 (1982) More details ...
Mayes, Margot, in The Stormy Petrel: a life of Dr. Kate Fraser (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1995) More details ...
McDonald, Stuart W.A. Thom, A. Thom and "The Bargarran witch trial: a psychiatric reassessment" , in Scottish Medical Journal, vol.41 (1996) More details ...
McFarlan, Donald, in White Queen: the Story of Mary Slessor (Lutterworth Press, London, 1955) More details ...
McLachlan, HughKim, Swales "The Bewitchment of Christian Shaw: A Reassessment of the Famous Paisley Witchcraft Case of 1697" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson., Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
McLaren, Eva Shaw, in A History of the Scottish women's hospitals (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1919) More details ...
McSherry, J.A. "Was Mary, Queen of Scots anorexic?" , in Scottish Medical Journal , vol.30 (1985) More details ...
Menzies, Dr. Margaret W., in Some Recollections of University and Early Days in Practice 1912-1920 (MWM Campbell, Glasgow, 1977) More details ...
Merchant Maiden Hospital, , in Rules for the Government and Order of the Merchant Maiden Hospital, Edinburgh (Balfour and Smellie, Edinburgh, 1776) More details ...
Miller, Joyce "Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of witchcraft practice in seventeenth-century Scotland" , in Goodare. , Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Montgomery, Alison, in (The) man, his body and his society: masculinity and the male experience in English and Scottish medicince, c.1640-c.1780 (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Durham, Durham, 2011) More details ...
Morrice, J., in Female Degradation: The Bane of Society (Peterhead, 1861) More details ...
Morse, D.J. "The decline of marital fertility in East Lothian" , in East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society 19 (1987) More details ...
Mortimer, Barbara "The nurse in Edinburgh c.1760-1860: the impact of commerce and professionalisation" , vol.Edinburgh PhD thesis (2002) More details ...
O'Brien, Brian, in She had a Magic: the Story of Mary Slessor (Jonathan Cape, London, 1958) More details ...
Oram, Richard D. "Disease, Death and the Hereafter in Medieval Scotland" , in Cowan, Edward J and Henderson, Lizanne edd. A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000-1600 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011) More details ...
Patterson, W.P.D., Watson eds, in Social Evils and Problems (Church of Scotland, 1918) More details ...
Ramsay Macdonald, J., in Women in the Printing Trades: A Sociological Study (King, London, 1904) More details ...
Ritchie, Sheila "Dr. Mary Esslemont (1891-1984) A personal View" , in Aberdeen University Review, Vol. 55:4 Autumn (1994) More details ...
Roberts, Shirley, in Sophia Jex-Blake: a woman pioneer in nineteenth century medical reform (Routledge, London, 1993) More details ...
Robertson, Elizabeth, in Mary Slessor. The Barefoot Missionary (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2001) More details ...
Ross, Margaret "The Royal Medical Society and medical women" , in Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , vol.26:4 (1996) More details ...
Ross, Margaret, in Memoirs of a private nurse (M'Naughtan & Sinclair, Glasgow, 1928) More details ...
Ross, Rev. William "Notice of the Hospital of St Martha at Aberdour, Fife" , in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.3 (1857) More details ...
Scott-Moncrieff, Robert, ed., in The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie 1692-1733. (Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1911) More details ...
Simpson, A.D.C. "James Hamilton\'s \'Lying-in\' hospital at Park House and the status of midwifery instruction in the Edinburgh Medical School" , in Book of old Edinburgh School 3 (1994) More details ...
Smith, Graham R. "Protest is better for infants: motherhood, health and welfare in a woman\'s town, c.1911-1931" , in Oral History, Vol. 23:1 Spring (1995) More details ...
Somerville, Martha ed, in Papers regarding Midwifery Cases. (Edinburgh, 1873) More details ...
Sommerville, Margaret Keith Brown, in The Merchant Maiden Hospital of the City of Edinburgh. (Former Pupils GUild of the Mary Erskine School for Girls, Edinburgh, ) More details ...
Stanhope, Lady Murray, in Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Rt. Hon. George Baillie of Jerviswood, and Lady Grisell Baillie. (Edinburgh, 1824) More details ...
Stuart, J., in A Brieff Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844) More details ...
Swan, A., in The Woman at Home. Annie S. Swan's Magazine (1894) More details ...
Thompson, Barbara, in Having a first baby: experiences in 1951 and 1985 compared: two social, obstetric, and dietary studies of married primigravidae in Aberdeen (1989) More details ...
Todd, Margaret, in The Life of Sophia Jex Blake (MacMillan, London, 1918) More details ...
Towill , Edwin S. "The Minutes of the Merchant Maiden Hospital" , in Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, vol.29 (1956) More details ...
Towill, Edwin S. "The Minutes of the Trades Maiden Hospital" , in Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, vol.28 (1953) More details ...
Tranter, N.L. "Women and Sport in nineteenth century Scotland" , in G., Jarvie and G., Walker edd. Scottish Sport in the Making of the Nation: Ninety-Minute Patriots (Leicester UP, London, 1994) More details ...
Tsai, H.H. "Women medical pioneers: Manchuria 1894-1912" , in Scottish medical Journal 37 (1992) More details ...
Walker, W.M. "Infant Suffocation Historical Myth" , in SESH 8 (1988) More details ...
Walsh, Oonagh "Gendering the asylums: Ireland and Scotland, 1847-1877" , in Terry, Brotherstone, ed. Gendering Scottish History (1999) More details ...
Ward, J. Peter, in Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993) More details ...
Watson, W.N. Boog "The balm-well of Saint Catherine, Liberton" , in The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club., vol.33 (1972) More details ...
Weaver, L.T. "Infant welfare, philanthropy and entrepreneurship in Glasgow: Sister Laura's Infant Food Company" , in Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, vol.38:1 (2008) More details ...
Yeo, Eileen Janes "Medicine, Science and the Body" , in Eleanor Gordon, Deborah Simonton, Lynn Abrams, and Yeo., Eileen Janes edd. Gender in Scottish History since 1700. (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2006) More details ...
Yeoman, Louise A. "The Devil as doctor: witchcraft, Wodrow, and the wider world" , in Scottish Archives, vol.1 (1995) More details ...
Zimmer, B.G. "The impact of social mobility on fertility: a reconsideration" , in Population Studies 35:1 (1981) More details ...