Brown-Séquard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine /

Brown-Seguard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, > 1817-1894.
Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, > 1817-1894
Physicians > France > Biography.
Physiologists > France > Biography.
Neurologists > France > Biography.
Neurology.
Neurology
History, 19th Century
Neurology > history
Physiologistes > France > Biographies.
Neurologues > France > Biographies.
Neurologie.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MEDICAL > Physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Neurologists
Physicians
Physiologists
United Kingdom
Mauritania
Paris
France
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Brown-Seguard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged licentious behavior, and by other scientists for his unorthodox views and for claims that, in fact, he never made. An improbable genius whose colorful life was characterized by dramatic reversals of fortune, he was a founder-physician of England's premier neurological hospital and held important profe.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199780648
0199780641

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