John Hughlings Jackson father of English neurology
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 ac...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
1998.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31842999*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
