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.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester Univ Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.