Una Maclean

Catherine Margaret Una Maclean FRCP (3 July 1925 – 1 September 2012) was a medical doctor in Aden, Yemen, and Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as an author and long-time lecturer in social medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Una Maclean
Born	Catherine Margaret Una Maclean (1925-07-03)3 July 1925 Applecross, Scotland
Died	1 September 2012(2012-09-01) (aged 87) Glasgow, Scotland
Education	Dingwall Academy University of Edinburgh, MB (1949), DPH (1964), MD (1965), and PhD (1967)
Spouses	Dr Peter Cockshott John Pitcairn Mackintosh ​ ​ (m. 1963; died 1978)​
Partner	Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
Children	5 (& 2 stepchildren)

Early life

Una Maclean was born in Applecross, Wester Ross, in the highlands of Scotland.^[1] The daughter of Reverend C. Maclean and his wife, she was raised in a deeply religious environment which led her to become a staunch atheist and humanist throughout the rest of her life.^[2] Attending Dingwall Academy, she continued her studies at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated at the top of her class with an MB in 1949. This degree was later followed by a D.Ph. (1964), an MD (1965),^[3] and a PhD (1967).^[4][5]

Career

Following graduation, she married Dr Peter Cockshott with whom she had her first child, a son.^[1] In 1952, her growing family relocated to the Aden Protectorate, where – being the only female doctor – she took up a post caring for Muslim women living in harems of local traders.^[6] During this time, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter.^[7] A second posting, this time in Ibadan, Nigeria, allowed her to apply her medical knowledge more fully, persuading local doctors to allow their patients to benefit from western medicine. A third child, a second son, was born here. During this time, she met John Mackintosh, to whom she was married from 1963 until his death in 1978.^[7][8]

Returning to Scotland, Una Maclean took up a lecturing post in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Edinburgh where she taught for twenty-three years.^[2] Her main research interests concerned cancer research, blood transfusion, and smallpox.^[9]

Selected publications

Una Maclean was a prolific writer, publishing five books and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles over the course of her career.^[2]

Books

• Magical medicine: a Nigerian case-study (1971).^[10]
• Social and community medicine for students (1971).^[11]
• Nursing in Contemporary Society (1974).^[12]
• Heart attack: survival, recovery, prevention (1981).^[13]
• Dependent territories: the frail elderly and community care (1989).^[14]

Articles

• Three views of The swamp dwellers (1959).^[15]
• The Usher Institute and the evolution of community medicine in Edinburgh (1975).^[16]
• Folk medicine and fertility: aspects of Yoruba medical practice affecting women (1982).^[17]

References

1. "Obituary: Dr Catherine Margaret Una Maclean, MD, D.Ph., PhD, FRCP, doctor, social anthropologist, academic, author". Retrieved 2 August 2018.
2. "Dr Catherine Una Mclean | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh". www.rcpe.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
3. Maclean, Catherine Margaret Una (1965). Cancer surveys in developing African countries with special reference to Ibadan, Nigeria (Thesis).
4. U., MacLean, Catherine M. (1967). The determination of community attitudes to mental illness (Thesis). hdl:1842/26718.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
5. "In memoriam" (PDF). The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 42, 4: 383. 2012.
6. SMO, Canan.co.uk. "The Sabhal Mòr Lecture". www.smo.uhi.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
7. "Obituary: Dr Una Maclean, 87". Retrieved 2 August 2018.
8. "Mackintosh, John Pitcairn (1929–1978), political scientist and politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31393. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
9. "Dr Catherine Una Mclean | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh". www.rcpe.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
10. Maclean, Una (1971). Magical medicine: a Nigerian case-study. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0713901405. OCLC 149254.
11. Maclean, Una (1971). Social and community medicine for students. London: Heinemann Medical. ISBN 978-0433201205. OCLC 297642.
12. MacLean-Hańćkowiak, Una; University Edinburgh Department of Social Medicine (1974). Nursing in contemporary society. London: Routledge & Paul. ISBN 978-0710077523. OCLC 935412783.
13. Emotional Health Vital to Heart Attack Recovery: (590822007-001) (Report). 2007. doi:10.1037/e590822007-001.
14. Maclean, Una (1989). Dependent territories: the frail elderly and community care. London: Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust. ISBN 9780900574726. OCLC 21877546.
15. Maclean, Una; Mahood, M. M; Ogundipe, Phebean (1959). "Three views of The swamp dwellers". Ibadan. (6): 27–30. OCLC 35900900.
16. Maclean, Una (1975). The Usher Institute and the evolution of community medicine in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Dept. of Community Medicine, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. OCLC 11438524.
17. Maclean, Una (1982). "Folk medicine and fertility: aspects of Yoruba medical practice affecting women". Ethnography of Fertility and Birth.: 161–179. OCLC 903616900.