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Title

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

Author

Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xiv, 356 p., [28] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard
• Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894
• Neurology
• Neurology > history
• History, 19th Century
• Neurology
• Physicians > France > Biography
• Physiologists > France > Biography
• Neurologists > France > Biography
• Neurology > Mauritania > Biography
• History, 19th Century > Paris
• Neurology > history > Mauritania
• Neurology > history > Paris
• Neurology > Mauritania > History
• Neurology > Paris > History
• History, 19th Century > Great Britain > Biography
• History, 19th Century > Mauritania > Biography
• History, 19th Century > Paris > Biography
• Neurology > history > Great Britain > Biography
• Neurology > history > Mauritania > Biography
• Neurology > history > Paris > Biography
• Paris
• Mauritania
• United Kingdom
• France
• United Kingdom

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The death of a professor -- At home in Mauritius -- A medical student in Paris -- Great expectations -- The physics of the circulation : why we don't faint on standing, and why we get bedsores on lying still for too long -- Fame in the making -- Fame and fortune in Britain : a piece of cake -- Broken dreams and promises -- Musical chairs -- Thoughts about the brain -- The disease of devils and demons -- The magnificent maverick -- A new system of medicine -- Scenes from the world of a scientist -- A backward glance and a reckoning.

ISBN

• 9780199742639 (alk. paper)
• 0199742634 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010013439

OCLC

• 592450994
• SCSB-11771377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library