Charcot: Constructing Neurology (Signed)

Goetz, Christopher G.; Bonduelle, Michel; Gelfand, Toby

ISBN 10: 0195076435 / ISBN 13: 9780195076431

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1995

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Inscribed by Toby Gelfand to noted scholars Owen and Caroline Hannaway on front end page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xx, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. *Autographed by author.* From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). Caroline Hannaway was a historian of medicine with close ties to the Johns Hopkins Departments of History of Medicine and History of Science and Technology.

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• Titolo: Charcot: Constructing Neurology (Signed)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195076435
• ISBN 13: 9780195076431
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Like New
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Medicine and Medical History

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Riassunto

This book provides the best available account of the life and contributions of Jean-Martin Charcot. It gives a fascinating picture of the man and his milieu, and clearly defines his role in establishing the new medical speciality of clinical neurology.

Recensione

The authors have achieved a detailed and balanced synthesis of many points of view derived from all available sources. (Marcus Jacobson, Nature, Vol 381, June 1996)