Malcolm Nicolson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Nicolson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicolson |
| SIGNATURE | NICOLSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Death and Doctor Hornbook by Robert Burns: A view from medical history
Robert Burns's poem, Death and Doctor Hornbook, 1785, tells of the drunken narrator's late night encounter with Death. The Grim Reaper is annoyed that ‘Dr Hornbook’, a local schoolteacher who has taken to selling medications and giving medical advice, is successfully thwarting his efforts to gather victims. The poet fears that the local gravedigger will be unemployed but Death reassures him that this will not be the case since Hornbook kills more…
Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice
Jacalyn Duffin is a distinguished medical historian. She is also medically qualified and continues to be actively involved in clinical medicine. For the present volume, she has persuaded 23 other ‘dual practitioners’, mostly from North America, to write short essays in which they reflect on the relevance of history to their personal practice of medicine. I suppose my first reaction was surprise that so many such contributors could be found, for t…
Re-expressing the division of British medicine under the NHS: The importance of locality in general practitioners' oral histories
Helen M. Dingwall, A Famous and Flourishing Society: The History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505–2005
Jacqueline Jenkinson, Scotland's Health, 1919–1948
Interdisciplinary History: Visions of Empire, Dreams of Youth
In the nineteen-seventies, when I was a graduate student, interdisciplinarity was a fashionable notion. The character of the enterprise that we young scholars engaged in was influenced, although perhaps largely at the levels of aspiration and rhetoric, by a shared conviction that there was special value in the interaction between different scholarly approaches. The official fruits of this widespread enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity were, howeve…
Medical Innovations: Historiography, Heterogeneity and `The Mangle of Practice
A notable feature of much recent historiography of medicine has been the extent to which it has embraced the agendas of other fields of enquiry. Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective is a good example of this process.' The volume is presented to us by John Pickstone (both editor and series editor) as medical history which has been enlightened by input from the sociology of technology, the sociology of scientific knowledge and the theory o…
Humboldtian plant geography after Humboldt: The link to ecology
In his classic textbook, The History of Biology , Erik Nordenskiöld suggested that there had existed, throughout the nineteenth century, not one but two distinct forms of plant geography. He designated one of these traditions of inquiry ‘floristic’ plant geography, tracing its origins back to the work of Carl Linnaeus on species and their distributions. The second form Nordenskiöld termed ‘morphological’, by which he meant that its practitioners …
The rise and fall of a fact: The Increase in Anorexia Nervosa
Over the last thirty years, it has regularly been asserted that the incidence of anorexia nervosa is increasing. The paper examines the background of this idea, traces its origins, and analyses the process whereby it became widely accepted within the medical and sociological literature. The study is based upon a citation list of all the epidemiological studies of anorexia nervosa with publication dates between 1960 and the end of 1990, which has …
Scottish Medical Societies, 1731-1939: Their History and Records . Jacqueline Jenkinson
Authorities and Partisans: The Debate on Unemployment and Health (Book)
The normal and the pathological
The `Glasgow School' of Paton, Findlay and Cathcart: Conservative Thought in Chemical Physiology, Nutrition and Public Health
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the `Glasgow School' of D. N. Paton, L. Findlay and E. P. Cathcart developed a distinctive approach to the scientific study of nutrition and to the social application of scientific knowledge. They adhered to the practice of chemical physiology, which they defended against the encroachment of a reductionist, modernizing biochemistry. In the face of rival claims from the emergent professional biomedica…
Essay Review: No Longer a Stranger? a Decade in the History of Ecology: Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology, the Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory, Saving the Prairi…
Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology. The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology 1895–1955. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, originally published as Nature's Economy: The Roots of Ecology
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A Study of the Vascular Theory of Multiple Sclerosis
M.R. Bury has radically questioned the value of social constructionism for medical sociology (1986). The present authors have already responded to this wide-ranging critique (Nicolson and McLaughlin 1987). This article aims to complement our theoretical discussion by embodying its principles in empirical case study. A recent debate surrounding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis is analysed in terms of the skills, interests and backgrounds of …
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A reply to M.R. Bury
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A reply to M. R. Bury
M. R. Bury has recently published a wide‐ranging criticism of social constructionism as it has been applied to the sociology of medicine. Bury's major misgivings are identified and replied to. It is argued that the constructionist sociology of medical knowledge is not in fact inherently weakened by incoherence or by a failure to recognise the difficulties which surround the questions of realism, reflexivity, or relativism. Nor does social constru…
Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldtian Science and the Origins of the Study of Vegetation
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A Study of the Vascular Theory of Multiple Sclerosis
M.R. Bury has radically questioned the value of social constructionism for medical sociology (1986). The present authors have already responded to this wide-ranging critique (Nicolson and McLaughlin 1987). This article aims to complement our theoretical discussion by embodying its principles in empirical case study. A recent debate surrounding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis is analysed in terms of the skills, interests and backgrounds of …
Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldtian Science and the Origins of the Study of Vegetation
The `Glasgow School' of Paton, Findlay and Cathcart: Conservative Thought in Chemical Physiology, Nutrition and Public Health
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the `Glasgow School' of D. N. Paton, L. Findlay and E. P. Cathcart developed a distinctive approach to the scientific study of nutrition and to the social application of scientific knowledge. They adhered to the practice of chemical physiology, which they defended against the encroachment of a reductionist, modernizing biochemistry. In the face of rival claims from the emergent professional biomedica…
The rise and fall of a fact: The Increase in Anorexia Nervosa
Over the last thirty years, it has regularly been asserted that the incidence of anorexia nervosa is increasing. The paper examines the background of this idea, traces its origins, and analyses the process whereby it became widely accepted within the medical and sociological literature. The study is based upon a citation list of all the epidemiological studies of anorexia nervosa with publication dates between 1960 and the end of 1990, which has …
Re-expressing the division of British medicine under the NHS: The importance of locality in general practitioners' oral histories
Humboldtian plant geography after Humboldt: The link to ecology
In his classic textbook, The History of Biology , Erik Nordenskiöld suggested that there had existed, throughout the nineteenth century, not one but two distinct forms of plant geography. He designated one of these traditions of inquiry ‘floristic’ plant geography, tracing its origins back to the work of Carl Linnaeus on species and their distributions. The second form Nordenskiöld termed ‘morphological’, by which he meant that its practitioners …
Essay Review: No Longer a Stranger? a Decade in the History of Ecology: Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology, the Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory, Saving the Prairi…
Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology. The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology 1895–1955. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, originally published as Nature's Economy: The Roots of Ecology
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A reply to M. R. Bury
M. R. Bury has recently published a wide‐ranging criticism of social constructionism as it has been applied to the sociology of medicine. Bury's major misgivings are identified and replied to. It is argued that the constructionist sociology of medical knowledge is not in fact inherently weakened by incoherence or by a failure to recognise the difficulties which surround the questions of realism, reflexivity, or relativism. Nor does social constru…
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A reply to M.R. Bury
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A reply to M. R. Bury
M. R. Bury has recently published a wide‐ranging criticism of social constructionism as it has been applied to the sociology of medicine. Bury's major misgivings are identified and replied to. It is argued that the constructionist sociology of medical knowledge is not in fact inherently weakened by incoherence or by a failure to recognise the difficulties which surround the questions of realism, reflexivity, or relativism. Nor does social constru…
Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldtian Science and the Origins of the Study of Vegetation
Essay Review: No Longer a Stranger? a Decade in the History of Ecology: Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology, the Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory, Saving the Prairi…
Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology. The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology 1895–1955. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, originally published as Nature's Economy: The Roots of Ecology
Social constructionism and medical sociology: A Study of the Vascular Theory of Multiple Sclerosis
M.R. Bury has radically questioned the value of social constructionism for medical sociology (1986). The present authors have already responded to this wide-ranging critique (Nicolson and McLaughlin 1987). This article aims to complement our theoretical discussion by embodying its principles in empirical case study. A recent debate surrounding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis is analysed in terms of the skills, interests and backgrounds of …
The `Glasgow School' of Paton, Findlay and Cathcart: Conservative Thought in Chemical Physiology, Nutrition and Public Health
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the `Glasgow School' of D. N. Paton, L. Findlay and E. P. Cathcart developed a distinctive approach to the scientific study of nutrition and to the social application of scientific knowledge. They adhered to the practice of chemical physiology, which they defended against the encroachment of a reductionist, modernizing biochemistry. In the face of rival claims from the emergent professional biomedica…
The normal and the pathological
Authorities and Partisans: The Debate on Unemployment and Health (Book)
Scottish Medical Societies, 1731-1939: Their History and Records . Jacqueline Jenkinson
Medical Innovations: Historiography, Heterogeneity and `The Mangle of Practice
A notable feature of much recent historiography of medicine has been the extent to which it has embraced the agendas of other fields of enquiry. Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective is a good example of this process.' The volume is presented to us by John Pickstone (both editor and series editor) as medical history which has been enlightened by input from the sociology of technology, the sociology of scientific knowledge and the theory o…
Humboldtian plant geography after Humboldt: The link to ecology
In his classic textbook, The History of Biology , Erik Nordenskiöld suggested that there had existed, throughout the nineteenth century, not one but two distinct forms of plant geography. He designated one of these traditions of inquiry ‘floristic’ plant geography, tracing its origins back to the work of Carl Linnaeus on species and their distributions. The second form Nordenskiöld termed ‘morphological’, by which he meant that its practitioners …
The rise and fall of a fact: The Increase in Anorexia Nervosa
Over the last thirty years, it has regularly been asserted that the incidence of anorexia nervosa is increasing. The paper examines the background of this idea, traces its origins, and analyses the process whereby it became widely accepted within the medical and sociological literature. The study is based upon a citation list of all the epidemiological studies of anorexia nervosa with publication dates between 1960 and the end of 1990, which has …
Interdisciplinary History: Visions of Empire, Dreams of Youth
In the nineteen-seventies, when I was a graduate student, interdisciplinarity was a fashionable notion. The character of the enterprise that we young scholars engaged in was influenced, although perhaps largely at the levels of aspiration and rhetoric, by a shared conviction that there was special value in the interaction between different scholarly approaches. The official fruits of this widespread enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity were, howeve…
Jacqueline Jenkinson, Scotland's Health, 1919–1948
Helen M. Dingwall, A Famous and Flourishing Society: The History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505–2005
Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice
Jacalyn Duffin is a distinguished medical historian. She is also medically qualified and continues to be actively involved in clinical medicine. For the present volume, she has persuaded 23 other ‘dual practitioners’, mostly from North America, to write short essays in which they reflect on the relevance of history to their personal practice of medicine. I suppose my first reaction was surprise that so many such contributors could be found, for t…
Re-expressing the division of British medicine under the NHS: The importance of locality in general practitioners' oral histories
Death and Doctor Hornbook by Robert Burns: A view from medical history
Robert Burns's poem, Death and Doctor Hornbook, 1785, tells of the drunken narrator's late night encounter with Death. The Grim Reaper is annoyed that ‘Dr Hornbook’, a local schoolteacher who has taken to selling medications and giving medical advice, is successfully thwarting his efforts to gather victims. The poet fears that the local gravedigger will be unemployed but Death reassures him that this will not be the case since Hornbook kills more…
Medicine in the Twentieth Century
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