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The History of Medicine 2017.


When? Thursday 23rd February (12-5pm) - Friday 24th February 2017 (12-5pm)

Where?

  • Surgeons' Hall Museums (12-5pm, Thursday 23rd February 2017)
  • Surgeons' Hall Museums (12-5pm, Friday 24th February 2017)

Point of contact: Ewan McAndrew - Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh User:Stinglehammer,

Cost: Free

What do I need? Please bring a laptop as desktop computers will not be provided. You can also Create a Wikipedia account ahead of the event.

How do I sign up? Booking links are below.

Booking[edit]

You can book your place for one day or both days through Eventbrite:

About the event[edit]

Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? During the University of Edinburgh's February term break, the University's Information Services team, in association with Surgeons' Hall Museums, will run Wikipedia 'editathons' focusing on improving the quality of articles about the history of medicine.

Join us to celebrate the lives & contributions of women in medicine, over sixty years of Nursing Studies & seventy-five years of the Polish School of Medicine. Unravel myths, discover truths, create & re-write the Wikipedia pages of Scotland’s famous, and infamous, medical figures including gruesome body-snatcher William Burke and intriguing alumni Dr. James Miranda Barry. Come join us for all the fun and gain digital skills, learn how to edit Wikipedia, explore our history and harness the power of the web for public engagement. Refreshments provided.

Join us this Innovative Learning Week as we help make Wikipedia better!

No prior knowledge is necessary as full training is given. Attendees will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved. Namely: Edinburgh as the birth place of medicine, distinguished Edinburgh alumni, historic locations etc.

Dissected skull, Maison Tramond model, Paris, nineteenth century (24226156362)

With guest speakers, an end of day tour of the Surgeons’ Hall museum and plenty of refreshments to support you to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of medicine-related content, you’ll learn how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community.

Participants can attend one day or both and will be supported to develop articles of their choice related to the history of medicine. NB: Please bring a laptop along to the event or email me at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk if you require to borrow one for the event.

Programme for Thursday 23 February[edit]

  • 12pm to 12.15pm – Housekeeping and Welcome.
  • 12.15pm to 12.45pm – Guest Speakers
    • Iain MacIntyre – The Scottish and British Societies of the History of Medicine
    • Alice Doyle - The Lothian Health Services Archive
    • Steve Sturdy – The History of Medicine
  • 12.45pm to 2pm – Wikipedia editing training
  • 2pm to 4.30pm – Researching and editing Wikipedia pages.
  • 4.30pm to 5pm – Transferring to Wikipedia’s livespace.
  • 5pm to 5.30pm – End of day treat: Tour of Surgeons’ Hall Museums.

Programme for Friday 24 February[edit]

  • 12pm to 12.15pm – Housekeeping and Welcome.
  • 12.15pm to 12.45pm – Guest Speakers
    • Janet Philp – Uncovering Burke and Hare
    • David Wright - An Illustrated History of Scottish Medicine - the inside story
    • Daisy Cunynghame – The Royal College of Physicians
  • 12.45pm to 2pm – Wikipedia editing training
  • 2pm to 4.30pm – Researching and editing Wikipedia pages.
  • 4.30pm to 5pm – Transferring to Wikipedia’s livespace.
  • 5pm to 5.30pm – End of day treat: Tour of Surgeons’ Hall Museums.

How do I prepare?[edit]

Once you have registered to attend, there are a few things you can do to prepare before you attend:

  • Create a Wikipedia account
  • Learn about editing if you like: visit the Wikipedia Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
  • Think about what article you would like to edit - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day
  • Bring a laptop - the room being used has a monitor for each table but this will be used to project information on during the event. There will be 4-way adaptors provided should you need to charge your laptop.
  • Note, light refreshments will be provided (tea, coffee, juice, nibbles etc.)

Looking for ideas?[edit]

Articles to edit[edit]

There’s a long long trail a winding vol 1 There’s a long long trail a winding vol 2 There’s a long long trail a winding vol 3 [3] [4] [5]

Polish School of Medicine[edit]

Women in medicine[edit]

Hospitals[edit]

PhD theses[edit]

  • Gavin Willshaw is adding Thomas Jehu's PhD thesis to Wikisource.

In addition[edit]

  • There is scope to add pages to the category: Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Lists of suggested or requested articles to create or improve can be added here. Please feel free to make your own suggestions.

UofE Innovative Learning Week 2015 editathon
UofE Innovative Learning Week 2015 editathon

Material[edit]

Participants are also encouraged to make full use of the University of Edinburgh's extensive online resources, such as databases and e-journals, as well as any of their own research material that they may have access to.

  • Video: Creating a user page
  • Video: Talk pages
  • Video: Sandboxes
  • Video: Basic editing techniques
  • Video: Improving an article on Wikipedia
  • Video: Creating an article on Wikipedia
  • Video: Understanding Wiki Categories

Attendees[edit]

Once you have signed up and created your Wikipedia account, why not add your username below? Don't worry about formatting if you aren't sure, we can help you on the day!

Trainers[edit]

  1. Ewan McAndrew aka Stinglehammer

List of buildings to photograph[edit]

Did you know that a Wikipedia article with an image is around 50% more likely to be clicked on & read than one without an image attached?

Here are some notable locations in Edinburgh that could use some photographs to improve their visibility on Wikipedia. If you see these buildings, please stop to take a photo which can then be uploaded to Wikipedia during the editathon on a CC-0 or CC-BY-SA open licence.

An ad-hoc map of the following address can be found at https://mapalist.com/map/573668 Eoin (talk) 11:29, 17 February 2016 (GMT)

Address Historic Scotland Reference Listing Significance
3-6 Atholl Crescent 28260 A Second site of Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy
2 Brandon Street 28341 B Site of Lilian Lindsay’s dental practice
16 Chambers Street 27991 B Site of Chambers Street Union, previously Edinburgh University Women’s Union
30 Chambers Street 27622 B Site of Medical College for Women
31 Chambers Street 27622 B Site of Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School when Lilian Lindsay matriculated.
5 Chester Street 28517 B Home of Sarah Mair and the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society
Court of Session, Parliament Square 27699 A
Crew Laboratory Building Unknown N/A Former site of Charlotte Auerbach's mutagenesis unit
1 Drummond Street 29795 B First site of Edinburgh Dental Dispensary
Dunfermline College of Physical Education N/A-RCAHMS N/A College for women trainee PE teachers, merged with Moray House
8 East Suffolk Road 30050 B Formerly Suffolk Halls of Residence
St. John's Hill N/A N/A Site of former Edinburgh School Board Day Industrial School

no wiki article found, Flora Stephenson wiki refers but includes building photo, ragged school wiki no direct ref Eoin (talk) 14:51, 17 February 2016 (GMT)

94 and 96 Spring Gardens 30200 C Former site of the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital Nurses' Home
175 Comely Bank Road 30045 N/A Flora Stevenson Primary School
3,5,7, George Square 28002 B Former site of the George Watson's Ladies College
11 George Square N/A-RCAHMS N/A Site of Elsie Inglis’s George Square Nursing Home; demolished in 1960s
31 George Square 50191 B Original site of Masson Hall; demolished in 1960s
54 George Square N/A-RCAHMS N/A Second site of Edinburgh University Women’s Union; demolished in 1960s
58 Great King Street 28965 A Final Edinburgh home of David Masson
6 Grove Street 28981 B Site of the Edinburgh Provident Dispensary for Women and Children
73 Grove Street N/A-NatArchives N/A Site of the Edinburgh Provident Dispensary for Women and Children
219 High Street 29047 A Site of Elsie Inglis’s Hospice
1 Inverleith Terrace 30186 B Base of Edinburgh Ladies Education Association
5 Lauriston Lane N/A-RCAHMS N/A Site of Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School when Lilian Lindsay matriculated
(8?) 10 Mill Lane 27822 N/A Site of Leith Hospital

Note: Current property information lists the Leith Hospital site at 8 Mill Lane, with the adjacent Fever Hospital site at 15 Mill Lane.

53 Lothian Street 30137 A First site of Edinburgh University Women’s Union
4 Manor Place 29300 B Site of Sophia Jex-Blake’s first practice
Moray House School of Education
13 Randolph Crescent 29601 A Home of Flora and Louisa Stevenson

2 Photos taken and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by MaryHutchison on 18/02/16

10 Regent Terrace 49773 A Second Edinburgh home of David Masson
3 Rosebery Crescent 29658 C First Edinburgh home of David Masson
8 St. John Street 29729 B Moray House Hostel, for women trainee teachers
15 Shandwick Place 47728 C Base of Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women

Photographed, uploaded and inserted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Association_for_the_University_Education_of_Women Eoin (talk) 11:29, 17 February 2016 (GMT)

25 Shandwick Place 30176 C First site of Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy

Photographed and uploaded to File:25 Shandwick Place North view 01.png & File:25 Shandwick Place North East view.png Neither Historic Scotland ref left, nor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Margaret_University mention the exact address. Image not inserted in article. Eoin (talk) 12:25, 17 February 2016 (GMT)

Sheriff Court, 27 Chambers Street 27981 N/A RCAHMS
2 South Lauder Road 30680 B Second site of Masson Hall
Surgeon's Hall, Nicolson Street 27772 A
High School Yards 28003 B Site of the old Surgeons' Hall and Surgeons' Square; site of Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women
8 Walker Street 29881 B Site of Elsie Inglis’s surgery
92 Whitehouse Loan N/A-NatArchives Site of Sophia Jex-Blake’s second surgery and later the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children (or Bruntsfield Hospital)
University of Edinburgh Archaeology Dept 27999 B Site of old Surgical Hospital 1832; site of old City Hospital for Infectious Diseases

Outcomes[edit]

Articles created or improved, and other outcomes from the editathons as they develop

Facial reconstruction of William Burke

Articles improved[edit]

  • Burke and Hare murders - Image added of facial reconstruction of William Burke. William Burke's place of birth added as Orrey from his confession. Other corrections made to the article e.g. date of birth and removing the surname Croswhaite from Joseph as no citation and not found in other material.
  • John Barclay (anatomist) - An eminent Scottish comparative anatomist, extramural teacher in anatomy, and director of the Highland Society of Scotland. New paragraph added on Barclay's candidacy for the chair of comparative anatomy. Further information on Barclay's Life and organisation.
  • Leith Hospital - 21 paragraphs added.
  • Thomas Keith (doctor) - Added Early life, photographic career, surgical career. A Victorian surgeon and amateur photographer from Scotland. He developed and improved the wax paper process and his photographs are recognised for their composition and use of shade. He was an early practitioner of the operation of ovariotomy (ovarian cystectomy) where his published results were amongst the best in the world.
  • Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service - Infobox added and relocated images.
  • Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia - 3 paragraphs added. The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia was a medical guide consisting of recipes and methods for making medicine. It was first published by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1699 as the Pharmacopoea Collegii Regii Medicorum Edimburgensium. The Edinburgh Pharmacopeia merged with the London and Dublin Pharmacopoeia's in 1864 creating the British Pharmacopoeia.
  • Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh - more information about the future of the hospital added and the various buildings on the current site.
  • Infobox added to Hanna Segal - British psychoanalyst and a follower of Melanie Klein. She was president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, vice-president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and was appointed to the Freud Memorial Chair at University College, London (UCL) in 1987. James Grotstein considered that "Received wisdom suggests that she is the doyen of "classical" Kleinian thinking and technique."
  • Information added about the Polish School of Medicine to the article about Francis Albert Eley Crew - English animal geneticist. He was a pioneer in his field leading to Edinburgh’s place as a world leader in the science of animal genetics. He was the first Director of the Institute of Animal Breeding and the first Professor of Animal Genetics. He is said to have laid the foundations of medical genetics.
  • Small amendments and a new Publications section added to Douglas Guthrie - Scottish medical doctor, otolaryngologist and historian of medicine.

Articles created[edit]

  • Rebecca Strong - English nurse who pioneered preliminary training for nurses.
  • Kate Hermann - the first female neurology consultant in Scotland. Hermann, who was Jewish, left with her family from Hamburg to London in 1937, fleeing the Nazis. She then moved, in 1938, to Edinburgh to study at the Royal Infirmary under Professor Norman Dott.
  • Anne_Ferguson (physician) - Scottish physician, clinical researcher and expert in inflammatory bowel disease. She was educated at Notre Dame School and The University of Glasgow, graduating with a first class honours degree in Physiology, and winning the Brunton Medal. In 1975 she was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh, also becoming a Consultant at the Gastrointestinal Unit at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. In 1987 she was appointed to a personal professorship in gastroenterology, and was honoured by election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1990.
  • Ethel Moir - WW1 nurse with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service.
  • The Polish School of Medicine - Terrific new illustrated 2200 word article.
  • Henryk Podlewski - Polish doctor who completed his studies at the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh during World War II and became the first Psychiatrist to practice in the Bahamas.
  • Nancy Loudon - Scottish gynaecologist. She devoted her professional life to pioneering and ensuring provision of family planning and well woman services. As such she was a fore-runner in what is now the specialty of 'community gynaecology'. This article is now translated on to the Italian Wikipedia.
  • Krystyna Magdalena Munk - a Polish doctor who completed her studies at the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh during World War II.
  • Elizabeth Wilson (doctor) - Family Planning Doctor and Right-to-Die campaigner. She founded the 408 Clinic, and FATE (Friends at the End) in 2000.

Other outcomes and coverage[edit]

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