John Hughlings Jackson : the father of English neurology / Macdonald Critchley and Eileen Critchley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Critchley, Macdonald, author.

Critchley, Eileen, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson, John Hughlings.

Physicians--England--Biography.

Physicians.

Neurology--History.

Neurology.

Local Subjects:

Jackson, John Hughlings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an account of the life and work of Dr John Hughlings Jackson, the physician who pioneered the development of the specialty of neurology within medical science in the United Kingdom.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. The Jackson Family Background; 2. Maternal Ancestry-the Hughlings; 3. Early Education and Life As a Medical Student; 4. Leaving Yorkshire for London; 5. The Cholera Epidemic in London, 1862; 6. First Neurological Papers; 7. Herbert Spencer, Evolution and Dissolution, and the Hierarchy of the Nervous System; 8. The Epilepsies; 9. Jackson's Writings on the Falling Sickness Reviewed; 10. Jackson As Morbid Anatomist; 11. The Cerebellum; 12. Aphasia: The Early Researches of Broca and Jackson; 13. Further Work on Aphasia; 14. Jackson's Final Writings on Aphasiology

15. Reviews by Freud, Gowers, Head and Others16. Pierre Marie, the Iconoclast and Later Writers on the Breakdown of Language; 17. Jackson's Achievements Assessed by Other Neurologists; 18. Foundation of Brain and the Hughlings Jackson Lectures; 19. Jackson the Man; 20. Marriage, Bereavement and Honours; 21. Tributes; Notes; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Bibliography.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772978-9

1-280-47146-8

9786610471461

1-4237-3828-4

0-19-802873-3

1-60256-309-8

OCLC:

228117475