William Richard Gowers 1845-1915 : exlporing the victorian brain - a biography / Ann Scott, Mervyn Eadie, Andrew Lees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gowers, W. R. (William Richard), 1845-1915.

Gowers, W. R.

Neurologists--Biography.

Neurologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century. He is best remembered for his discovery of the eponymous 'Gowers' sign', for his invention of the patella hammer, and for authoring the classic two-volume neurology textbook Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. To date Dr Gowers has been the subject of only one published biography, while some aspects of Gowers' work have been chronicled in historical works regardingthe history of neurology. This book goes into greater detail than ever, presenting the life story behind a great Victorian b

Contents:

Cover; Frontispiece; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of illustrations; 1 Family and schooling in Victorian England; Gowers as a Victorian; The Gowers family; Christ Church College School, Oxford; Choosing a career; 2 Apprentice years 1861-2; The shorthand diaries; Social life in an Essex village; Gaining practical experience; Making his first diagnosis; Stress of preparing for matriculation examination; Sitting the matriculation examination in London; Awaiting matriculation results; 3 Apprentice year 1863; Introduction of the Preliminary Scientific Examination

Return to LondonCoggeshall 'penny readings'; Tennyson, Arnold, and Coleridge; Dr Simpson's practice expands and he buys a gig; royal celebrations; Gowers learns to smoke; Gowers goes into print for the first time; Death of the Yorkshire farmer; Botanizing; Meeting Cornelius Walford; Preparing to move to London; the search for lodgings; farewell to Coggeshall; 4 Medical student 1863-70; Reforms in medicine and medical education 1823-58; The establishment of University College London; The medical school and University College Hospital; Gowers as a medical student

Recuperation in Bournemouth and a glimpse of TennysonArnold, Darwin, William Jenner, John Russell Reynolds, and Ruskin; Marrying into the Baines family of Leeds; 5 Choosing neurology; The National Hospital, Queen Square 1860-70; Initial appointments to the Queen Square staff; Medical registrar and physician's assistant 1870-2; Promotion to honorary assistant physician 1872; New Queen Square colleagues 1870-90; 6 Gowers and clinical diagnosis; Clinical lectures at Queen Square; Gowers' clinical notes at Queen Square; Inventing diagnostic aids; 7 Gowers the researcher; Research method; Epilepsy

The Borderland of EpilepsySyphilis and the nervous system; Diseases involving the basal ganglia; Other movement disorders; Disseminated sclerosis; Primary diseases of muscle; Neurophysiology; Conclusion: the significance of Gowers' research; 8 Gowers the writer and lecturer; A Manual and Atlas of Medical Ophthalmoscopy; Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain and of the Spinal Cord; Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System; Reviews of the Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System; Professor of clinical medicine, University College Hospital; 9 Life outside work; Paterfamilias; Hobbies

A 'clubbable' man?Empire and adventure: Morrison, Jameson, and Kipling; South African rest cure, and losing touch; The Phonographic Record of Clinical Teaching and Medical Science; 10 'Grand old man' of clinical neurology; Queen Square in the 1890s; Accommodating to new scientific discoveries; 'Gowers' eponyms; Achievements recognized; Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee honours; The turn of the century; In memoriam; 11 Gowers: the man, his work, and his legacy; Influences on Gowers' intellectual development; Gowers' personality; Gowers and Charcot; Gowers and Hughlings Jackson

Twentieth-century assessments of Gowers' contributions to neurology

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-175352-1

1-283-62142-8

9786613933874

0-19-163701-7

OCLC:

813004722