Brown-Séquard :: an improbable genius who transformed medicine /

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 li...

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1. Verfasser: Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199780648
0199780641
9781282880948
1282880942

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