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.
[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.
[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.
[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.