Fifty Years of American Neurology: Fragments of an Historical Retrospect
Author : Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Page : 53 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Smith Ely Jelliffe
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Smith Ely Jelliffe
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Neurology
ISBN : 9781891137013
Author : American Neurological Association
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Nervous system
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Author : John M S Pearce
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1783261102
This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of “space-fillers”, the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers.The author has expanded these short essays and included several additional articles and biographical reviews. He has also incorporated some longer, more discursive essays, which should be relevant to neurologists, physicians and those working in internal medicine and psychiatry. The reader attracted to medical and neurological history should find much of interest in these diverse topics.
Author : Molly Caldwell Crosby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101185686
A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims-who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
Author : Alice Wexler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300151772
A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as “the witchcraft disease” When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington’s in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington’s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to “belong to the disease”; the emergence of Huntington’s chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease.
Author : John Burnham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1983-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226081144
Most lives are restricted in focus and reflect relatively narrow aspects of their times. A few lives affect and reflect a broad range of human beings and human events. The subject of this book, Jelliffe, led a life of the latter kind.
Author : John Pearce
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Page : 633 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781860943386
This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of space-fillers, the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers. The author has expanded these short essays and included several additional articles and biographical reviews. He has also incorporated some longer, more discursive essays, which should be relevant to neurologists, physicians and those working in internal medicine and psychiatry. The reader attracted to medical and neurological history should find much of interest in these diverse topics.
Author : Maynard Manuel Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Neurology
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Author : Israel Spanier Wechsler
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Nervous system
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