Dr Malcolm Nicolson
Dr Malcolm Nicolson
Wellmn@arts.gla.ac.uk
Room 319
Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 6070
Teaching 2008-9
| Level 1: | Life History Project, MB.ChB |
| Honours: | Innovations in Western Medicine, 1790-1960 -- Social Origins and Cultural Impacts |
| PGT: | Studies in the History of Medicine from 1700 to 1850 (M.Sc in History; M.Sc in History with emphasis on the History of Medicine) |
| Studies in the History of Medicine from 1850 to 2000 (M.Sc in History; M.Sc in History with emphasis on the History of Medicine) | |
| Introduction to Social Theory for Researchers (Faculty Graduate School Core Course) |
Research interests
History of medical technology
History of physical diagnosis.
History of Scottish medicine, especially in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Research contributions
Editor, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Occasional Publications Series, 1992-2002
Exhibitions organised:
'Achievements and Advances: the British Medical Ultrasound Society Historical Collection', Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London (with J. Fleming) 2001
'Ian Donald and the Diasonograph', British Medical Ultrasound Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh, (with J. Fleming) 2001.
Member, Academic committee 'A Healing Passion: Medicine in Glasgow Past and Present', Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, 2006
Member, Academic committee 'Anatomy Acts', Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2006.
Conferences organised:
Wellcome Trust Regional Forum for the History of Medicine in Scotland, 1996-2006, 2009.
Witness Seminar, 'The history of domiciliary care in geriatric medicine' (with K. Beard) 2007.
Rank Prize Fund Conference 'The Origins of the Science and Practice of Infant and Child Nutrition and Feeding', (with L.T. Weaver) 2007.
Annual Conference, Society for the Social History of Medicine, Glasgow, (with J. Mills and J. Stewart) 2008.
Witness Seminar, The development of Old Age Psychiatry from the 1960s until 1989, Glasgow, (with T. Arie and C. Hilton) 2008.
Recent grants
British Medical Ultrasound Society, 2001, Travel grant
Wellcome Trust, 2002, (with L Weaver) 'From Food for Babies to Feeding Babies'
Wellcome Trust, 2002, (with T. van Bortel) 'Moving boundaries: Surgery in Flanders and the Scottish Lowlands in the eighteenth century, a comparative study'.
Wellcome Trust, 2004, (with A. Crowther, M. Dupree and L. Weaver) 'Infant health in 20th Century Scotland'.
Wellcome Trust, 2005, (with A. Beveridge) 'R.D. Laing'.
Wellcome Trust, 2006, Masters studentships.
British Academy, 2006, (with E. Becsei-Kilborn) 'Conductive Education in Hungary'
Wellcome Trust, 2007, Masters studentships.
Publications
Articles in refereed journals (since 2001)
'Matthew Baillie Gairdner, the Royal Medical Society and the problem of the second heart sound' (with Jonathan Windram), Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2001) 31, 357-367.
'"Towards establishing ecology as a science instead of an art": the work of John T. Curtis on the plant community continuum' (2001) Web Ecology 2: 1-6. Online serial at http://www.oikos.ekol.lu.se
'The early history of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: A study of lay/practitioner interaction in the context of a medical charity' (with George Lowis) Medical History, (2002) 46, 141-174.
'An oral history of general practice: speaking for a change' (with Graham Smith and Graham Watt) British Journal of General Practice (2002) 52, 516-517.
'An oral history of general practice: Beyond the practice. The changing relationship with secondary care', (with Graham Smith) British Journal of General Practice (2002) 52, 956-957.
'H.A. Gleason and the individualistic hypothesis revisited' (with R.P. McIntosh) Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, (2002) 83, 133-142.
'An oral history of general practice: Diagnostics and therapeutics' (with Graham Smith) British Journal of General Practice (2003) 53, 256-257.
'Hyaline membrane and neonatal radiology: Ian Donald's first venture into imaging research', (with J. Fleming and I. Spencer) Scottish Medical Journal (2005) 50, 35-37.
'The Glasgow Corporation Milk Depot 1904-1910 and its Role in Infant Welfare: An End or a Means?', (with A. Ferguson and L. T. Weaver) Social History of Medicine. (2006) 19, 443-460.
'Re-expressing the division of British medicine under the NHS: the importance of locality in general practitioners' oral histories' (with G. Smith) Social Science and Medicine (2007). 64, 938-948
'The emergence of orthodontics as a speciality in Britain, the role of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics' (with G. S. Taylor) Medical History (2007) 51, 379-98.
Other publications (since 2001)
'Apoplexy', 'Auscultation', 'Sounds of the body', 'Stethoscope' in Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett (eds) Oxford Companion to the Body, Oxford University Press (2001).
'The general development of ultrasound in obstetrics and how it affects our perception of the unborn child' (2001) in C. Borland (ed) Progressive Disorder DCA: Dundee, 64.
'Preface - Dr Peter McKenzie and his memoir' in P. McKenzie Fevers, Family and Friends: A Memoir (2001) Glasgow: Wellcome Unit, pp 8-10
'Morgagni, G.B.' in S Robertson et al (eds) Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Macmillan/Nature Publishing Group, London (2002), 12, 309-310.
'History of Plant Ecology' in S Robertson et al (eds) Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Macmillan Nature Publishing Group, London, (2002), 9, 122-124.
'The Continental Journeys of Andrew Duncan Junior' website publication of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, (2003) http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/continental_journey/journey_1.html
'Ian Donald, diagnostician and moralist' website publication of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, (2004) http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/history/donald/donald1.php.
'Having the doctor's ear in nineteenth-century Edinburgh' in M.M. Smith (ed) Hearing History: A Reader, University of Georgia Press, (2004) 134- 153.
'Thomas Hopkirk', 'John Scouler', 'Roger Hennedy', 'James Young Simpson', 'James Syme', 'John Lizars', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004)
'Scottish innovations: the case study of ultrasound', (with John Fleming) in A. Patrizio and D. Kemp (eds) Anatomy Acts: How we come to know ourselves (2006) Birlinn, Edinburgh, pp 51-62.
'William Pulteney Alison', 'Matthew Baillie', 'Ian Donald', 'John Hunter', 'William Hunter', 'Joseph Lister', 'William Smellie', in W.F. and H. Bynum, Dictionary of Medical Biography, (2007), 1, 107-8; 146-48; 2, 428-29; 3, 672-76; 676-78; 799-803; 5, 1161-2.
'Death and Birth' in The Cultural History of the Human Body, 6, 1920 -Present, I. Crozier (ed) Berg Publications, (forthcoming)
'Community' in K. Jax and A. Schwarz (eds) Handbook of Ecological Concepts. Springer, (forthcoming)
'Scenes from the History of Ultrasound: British Medical Ultrasound Society Historical Collection' (with J. Fleming and I. Spencer), (2002) Website www.bmus.org/scenes%20from%20history.htm.
'The building of the diasonograph: the first commercial ultrasound scanner' Abstract, (2001) Programme and Abstracts: British Medical Ultrasound Society 33th Annual Scientific Meeting, BMUS, Edinburgh, p. 95
'The Clinic of the Birth: Neonatal Clinicopathology and the origins of Ian Donald's interest in diagnostic imaging', (2004) Abstract, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 89: A54
'The hyperbaric oxygen conflict and the divided role of the post-war paediatrician'. (with R McAdams, and LT Weaver). Abstract, Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007; 92 (suppl 1): A67
Recent and forthcoming conference papers
Annual Meeting, British Society for the History of Paediatrics, Glasgow, 2005
Fetal Fortunes Conference, Glasgow 2006
Society for the Social History of Medicine, Warwick 2006
Spring Meeting, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, York 2007
Wellcome Trust Regional Forum, Glasgow, 2007
Rank Prize Fund Conference, Windermere, 2007
Annual Meeting, British Society for the History of Paediatrics, Dublin, 2007
'Trans-national and cross-cultural perspectives in the history of medicine', Mumbai, India, 2007.
Commemorative Meeting, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, 2008.