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Morrice McCrae
Morrice McCrae has been a House Physician and a House Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and a House Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of both Edinburgh and Glasgow, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He is the author of The National Health Service in Scotland: Origins and Ideals (Tuckwell Press, 2003) and The New Club: A History (Tuckwell Press, 2004).
National Health Service in Scotland
ISBN: 9781862322165
Category: Medicine
Author: Morrice McCrae
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
This book traces the background to the setting up of the National Health Services established in Scotland and England in 1948.
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Physicians and Society
ISBN: 9780859766982
Category: Education, Medicine
Author: Morrice McCrae
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: not in stock
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Simpson
ISBN: 9781780270258
Category: History
Author: Morrice McCrae
Publication Date: June 2011
Format:
Price: £12.99
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'This biography will become a classic.' - Journal of Medical Biography
'An excellent and wide-ranging biography.' - Nursing Standard
James Young Simpson is the medical pioneer that brought us general anaesthetic. This book tells the story of one of the great events in the history of medicine.
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Simpson
ISBN: 9781906566173
Category: History
Author: Morrice McCrae
Publication Date: May 2010
Format:
Price: £20.00
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'This biography will become a classic.' - Journal of Medical Biography
'An excellent and wide-ranging biography.' - Nursing Standard
In 1847, challenging the firmly held convictions of the medical profession of the time, James Young Simpson demonstrated for the first time that a woman could be safely relieved of the pains of difficult and traumatic labour by the administration of a general anaesthetic. He later added to his fame when he introduced a new and better anaesthetic, chloroform, which soon became the most popular general anaesthetic for use in general surgery as well as midwifery.
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