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The neurologists : A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.1789-2000

Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Casper, Stephen T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester Univ Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables and figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: from physician to neurologist; 1. Physicians in neurological societies; neurologists in general medical societies; 2. The First World War and the transformation of neurology; 3. Neurology in interwar Britain; 4. Neurology and state medicine; 5. The integrative legacy of contemporary specialists in neurology; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.