John Hughlings Jackson: father of English neurology
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1. Verfasser: Critchley, Macdonald (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1998
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index
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
This book traces the life and scientific career of Dr. John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), the English physician who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty during the reign of Queen Victoria. Jackson made a number of scientific discoveries in several areas of higher nervous activity and language, and contributed greatly to the study of various types of epilepsy. He isolated the form of epilepsy associated with localized convulsive seizures, known as Jacksonian epilepsy. His research on epilepsy stretched across a broad spectrum and included uncinate attacks, intellectual
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 228 p.)
ISBN:0195123395
1280471468
1423738284
1602563098
9780195123395
9781280471469
9781423738282
9781602563094

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