Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard The Biography of a Tormented Genius /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Celestin, Louis-Cyril (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurology.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.

Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Physiology in the Nineteenth Century
• The Birthplace
• The Forebears
• The Formative Years: 1817-1837
• The Medical Student: 1838-1846
• The Lone Experimenter: 1846-1851
• The Visitor to America: 1852-1853
• The Cholera Physician: 1854
• The Richmond Professor: 1854-1855
• The Paris Practitioner: 1856-1857
• The Itinerant Lecturer: 1856-1859
• The London Consultant Neurologist: 1860-1864
• The Harvard Professor: 1864-1867
• The Paris Course Lecturer: 1869-1872
• The New York Practitioner: 1872-1874
• The Indigent Physician: 1874-1877
• The College de France Professor: 1878-1894
• The Father of Hormonal Therapy: 1889-1893
• The Last Years: 1892-1894.