Stephen Casper

The neurologists (eBook, ePUB)

A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.1789-2000

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The neurologists describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists. Relying entirely upon hitherto unseen primary sources drawn from archives across Britain, Europe and North America, this book analyses the emergence of neurology in the context of the development of modern medicine in Britain. The neurologists thus surveys the patterns of change and modernisation that influenced British medical culture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In so doing, it ultimately seeks an account of how neurological knowledge acquired such an expansive view of human nature as to become concerned in the last decades of the twentieth century with the human sciences, philosophy, art and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526112583
• Artikelnr.: 48796207

Autorenporträt

Stephen T. Casper is Assistant Professor in History of Science at Clarkson University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: from physician to neurologist 1. Physicians in neurological
societies: neurologists in general medical societies 2. World War I and the
transformation of neurology 3. Neurology in interwar Britain 4. Neurology
and state medicine 5. The integrative legacy of contemporary neurology
Bibliography Index