Jewish medical students and graduates in Scotland, 1739-1945
This thesis describes the history of the Jews in medicine in Scotland between 1739 and 1945 using archival material from all the Scottish medical schools. During these two centuries Jewish students from within Scotland as well as groups of Jewish students from many overseas countries came to Scotland to study and qualify. Jewish students were drawn to medicine by the long Jewish chain of medical tradition and by the high status accorded to the physician within that tradition. In addition, as conditions in medical schools became favourable Jewish students came forward to take advantage of these facilities, There was no religious bar to Jewish students entering the Scottish universities whose diverse student body included those from a wide variety of religious and national backgrounds. The English universities, by way of contrast, did not permit professing Jews to take degrees until the second half of the nineteenth century. Jews were among the first medical graduates in Aberdeen in the eighteenth century. They were also to be found amongst the student body of the medical school of the University of Edinburgh from the middle of the eighteenth century, as Edinburgh gradually reached international prominence as
Collins, Kenneth Edward
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Jewish medical students and graduates in Scotland, 1739-1945. This thesis describes the history of the Jews in medicine in Scotland between 1739 and 1945 using archival material from all the Scottish medical schools. During these two centuries Jewish students from within Scotland as well as groups of Jewish students from many overseas countries came to Scotland to study and qualify. Jewish students were drawn to medicine by the long Jewish chain of medical tradition and by the high status accorded to the physician within that tradition. In addition, as conditions in medical schools became favourable Jewish students came forward to take advantage of these facilities, There was no religious bar to Jewish students entering the Scottish universities whose diverse student body included those from a wide variety of religious and national backgrounds. The English universities, by way of contrast, did not permit professing Jews to take degrees until the second half of the nineteenth century. Jews were among the first medical graduates in Aberdeen in the eighteenth century. They were also to be found amongst the student body of the medical school of the University of Edinburgh from the middle of the eighteenth century, as Edinburgh gradually reached international prominence as
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