The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.17892000.

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Casper, Stephen T [author.]

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TextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester Univ Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781526112590
1526112590
9781526112583
1526112582

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616.80094109034 23

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RC339.G7 C37 2014

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Contents:

Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables and figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: from physician to neurologist; 1. Physicians in neurological societies; neurologists in general medical societies; 2. The First World War and the transformation of neurology; 3. Neurology in interwar Britain; 4. Neurology and state medicine; 5. The integrative legacy of contemporary specialists in neurology; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary: Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists.

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Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists.

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