Georges Gilles de la Tourette : beyond the eponym, a biography / Olivier Walusinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walusinski, Olivier, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gilles de la Tourette, Georges, 1857-1904.

Gilles de la Tourette, Georges.

Physicians--Biography.

Physicians.

Tourette syndrome.

Tourette Syndrome.

Medical Subjects:

Physicians.

Tourette Syndrome.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 490 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Origins and family life

Education, medical studies, medical practice

Secretary, colleague, and friend of Jean-Martin Charcot

The assassination attempt

Glimpses of Gilles de la Tourette's personality : hospital life and the driout scandal

Gilles de la Tourette, chief physician for the 1900 World's Fair in Paris

A sad end : eclipse, twilight, and death

Doctoral thesis

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Vibratory medicine and therapeutic suspension techniques

L'hypnotisme et les états analogues (hypnotism and analogous states)

Clinical and therapeutic treatise on hysteria : 'hystérie normale'

Clinical and therapeutic treatise on hysteria : 'paroxysmic hysteria'

Soeur Jeanne des Anges, supérieure des Ursulines de Loudun (Sister Jeanne of the angels, superior of the Ursuline Convent in Loudun)

Théophraste Renaudot (1586-1653), Gilles de la Tourette's hero

Gilles de la Tourette, commentator for la Revue Hebdomadaire, 1892-1900

Correspondence between Octave Lebesgue, known as Georges Montorgueil, and Gilles de la Tourette

Gilles de la Tourette, a poet

Recapitulative list of all Gilles de la Tourette's publications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190636036

0190636033

OCLC:

1028615531