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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : the death of a professor
  • At home in Mauritius
  • A medical student in Paris
  • Great expectations
  • The physics of the circulation : why we don't faint on standing and get bedsores on lying still for too long
  • Fame in the making
  • Fame and fortune in Britain : a piece of cake
  • Broken dreams and promises
  • Musical chairs
  • Thoughts about the brain
  • The disease of devils and demons
  • The magnificent maverick
  • A new system of medicine
  • Scenes from the world of a scientist
  • A backward glance and a reckoning.

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