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Victor Horsley : the world's first neurosurgeon and his conscience / Michael J. Aminoff.
LIBRA RD592.9.H67 A55 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey), author.
- Series:
- Cambridge medicine (Series)
- Cambridge medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Neurosurgeons.
- Great Britain.
- Neurosurgeons--Great Britain--Biography.
- Horsley, Victor, Sir, 1857-1916.
- Horsley, Victor.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Early Days
- 2. The Other Side of Gower Street
- 3. At the Brown
- 4. Dividing the Indivisible: The Localization of Cortical Functions
- 5. The Making of a Specialty
- 6. The Grammar of Neurosurgery: Technical Underpinnings
- 7. The Neurosurgery of Specific Disorders
- 8. Measures of the Man
- 9. The Politics of Protection
- 10. Not So Trivial Pursuits: The Slide into Politics
- 11. Antivivisectionist Claims and Clamor
- 12. Bitter Tears: Horsley and the Suffragist Movement
- 13. Last Orders: The Temperance Movement
- 14. Syphilis and the Public Health
- 15. A Surgeon Goes to War
- 16. Aftermaths and Appraisals.
- Notes:
- Print on demand edition.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781316513088
- 1316513084
- OCLC:
- 1273336120
- Publisher Number:
- 99989829214
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