Una Maclean
{{Short description|British medical doctor & author (1925-2012)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Una Maclean
| birth_name = Catherine Margaret Una Maclean
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|7|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Applecross, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|9|1|1925|7|3|df=yes}}
| death_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| education = Dingwall Academy
University of Edinburgh, MB (1949), DPH (1964), MD (1965), and PhD (1967)
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- Dr Peter Cockshott
- {{marriage|John Pitcairn Mackintosh|1963|1978|end = died}}
}}
| partner = Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
| children = 5 (& 2 stepchildren)
}}
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.
Early life
Una Maclean was born in Applecross, Wester Ross, in the highlands of Scotland.{{Cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-dr-catherine-margaret-una-maclean-md-d-ph-phd-frcp-doctor-social-anthropologist-academic-author-1-2513654|title=Obituary: Dr Catherine Margaret Una Maclean, MD, D.Ph., PhD, FRCP, doctor, social anthropologist, academic, author|access-date=2018-08-02|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/dr-catherine-una-mclean|title=Dr Catherine Una Mclean {{!}} Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|website=www.rcpe.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-02}} 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),{{Cite thesis|last=Maclean|first=Catherine Margaret Una|date=1965|title=Cancer surveys in developing African countries with special reference to Ibadan, Nigeria|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/17559|language=en}} and a PhD (1967).{{Cite thesis|last=U.|first=MacLean, Catherine M.|date=1967|title=The determination of community attitudes to mental illness|language=en|hdl=1842/26718}}{{Cite journal|date=2012|title=In memoriam|url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inmemoriam_1.pdf|journal=The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|volume=42, 4|pages=383}}
Career
Following graduation, she married Dr Peter Cockshott with whom she had her first child, a son. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/en/rannsachadh/leabharlann/seann-phaipearan-na-colaiste/oraid-an-t-sabhail|title=The Sabhal Mòr Lecture|last=SMO|first=Canan.co.uk|website=www.smo.uhi.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-02}} During this time, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter.{{Cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-dr-una-maclean-87-1-2518703|title=Obituary: Dr Una Maclean, 87|access-date=2018-08-02|language=en}} 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.{{Cite ODNB|title=Mackintosh, John Pitcairn (1929–1978), political scientist and politician| year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31393|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31393| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}
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. Her main research interests concerned cancer research, blood transfusion, and smallpox.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/dr-catherine-una-mclean|title=Dr Catherine Una Mclean {{!}} Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|website=www.rcpe.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-09}}
Selected publications
= Books =
- Magical medicine: a Nigerian case-study (1971).{{Cite book|title=Magical medicine: a Nigerian case-study.|last=Maclean|first=Una|date=1971|publisher=Allen Lane|isbn=978-0713901405|location=London|language=en|oclc = 149254}}
- Social and community medicine for students (1971).{{Cite book|title=Social and community medicine for students.|last=Maclean|first=Una|date=1971|publisher=Heinemann Medical|isbn=978-0433201205|location=London|language=en|oclc = 297642}}
- Nursing in Contemporary Society (1974).{{Cite book|title=Nursing in contemporary society|last1=MacLean-Hańćkowiak|first1=Una|last2=University Edinburgh Department of Social Medicine|date=1974|publisher=Routledge & Paul|isbn=978-0710077523|location=London|language=en|oclc = 935412783}}
- Heart attack: survival, recovery, prevention (1981).{{cite report | title=Emotional Health Vital to Heart Attack Recovery: (590822007-001) | date=2007 | doi=10.1037/e590822007-001 | page=}}
- Dependent territories: the frail elderly and community care (1989).{{Cite book|title=Dependent territories: the frail elderly and community care|last=Maclean|first=Una|date=1989|publisher=Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust|isbn=9780900574726|location=London|language=en|oclc = 21877546}}
= Articles =
- Three views of The swamp dwellers (1959).{{Cite journal|last1=Maclean|first1=Una|last2=Mahood|first2=M. M|last3=Ogundipe|first3=Phebean|author3-link=P. A. Ogundipe|date=1959|title=Three views of The swamp dwellers|journal=Ibadan.|language=en|issue=6|pages=27–30|oclc=35900900}}
- The Usher Institute and the evolution of community medicine in Edinburgh (1975).{{Cite book|title=The Usher Institute and the evolution of community medicine in Edinburgh|last=Maclean|first=Una|date=1975|publisher=Dept. of Community Medicine, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh|location=Edinburgh|language=en|oclc = 11438524}}
- Folk medicine and fertility: aspects of Yoruba medical practice affecting women (1982).{{Cite journal|last=Maclean|first=Una|date=1982|title=Folk medicine and fertility: aspects of Yoruba medical practice affecting women|journal=Ethnography of Fertility and Birth.|language=en|pages=161–179|oclc=903616900}}
References
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Category:20th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:20th-century Scottish women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh