Glasgow's Doctor

Glasgow's Doctor James Burn Russell, MOH, 1837-1904

Paperback (12 Dec 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A biography of Glasgow's first full-time Medical Officer of Health, whose outspokenness over conditions in the city's Victorian slums opened the eyes of Glasgow's middle classes to the plight of the poor, but whose private life was dogged by tragedy.

Book information

ISBN: 9781862320550
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Imprint: Tuckwell Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 610.92
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 407g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm