Brown-Sequard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine / Michael J. Aminoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--France--Biography.

Physicians.

Physiologists--France--Biography.

Physiologists.

Neurologists--France--Biography.

Neurologists.

Brown-Sequard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894.

Brown-Sequard, Charles-Edouard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brown-Seguard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged licentious behavior, and by other scientists for his unorthodox views and for claims that, in fact, he never made. An improbable genius whose colorful life was characterized by dramatic reversals of fortune, he was a founder-physician of England's premier neurological hospital and held important profe

Contents:

Contents; Chapter 1 The Death of a Professor; Chapter 2 At Home in Mauritius; Chapter 3 A Medical Student in Paris; Chapter 4 Great Expectations; Chapter 5 The Physics of the Circulation: Why We Don't Faint on Standing, and Why We Get Bedsores on Lying Still for Too Long; Chapter 6 Fame in the Making; Chapter 7 Fame and Fortune in Britain: A Piece of Cake; Chapter 8 Broken Dreams and Promises; Chapter 9 Musical Chairs; Chapter 10 Thoughts About the Brain; Chapter 11 The Disease of Devils and Demons; Chapter 12 The Magnificent Maverick; Chapter 13 A New System of Medicine

Chapter 14 Scenes from the World of a ScientistChapter 15 A Backward Glance and a Reckoning; General Biographical References; Appendix: The Scientific Works of Brown-Séquard; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045389-3

1-282-88094-2

9786612880940

0-19-978064-1

OCLC:

680002156