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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Casper, Stephen T., author.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester Univ Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Neurology -- Great Britain -- History. Neurologists -- Great Britain -- History. Neurologists. Neurology. Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11756786

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ISBN:	9781526112590 1526112590 9781526112583 1526112582
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780719091926

Table of 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.

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