Brown-Sequard

Brown-Sequard

Author: Michael J. Aminoff, MD

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0199742634

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This book traces the strange career of Brown-Sequard, an eccentric, restless, nineteenth-century physician-scientist whose life was characterized by dramatic reversals of fortune and is said to have been "one of the greatest discovers of facts that the world has ever seen".


The Elixir of Life. Dr. Brown-Séguard's Own Account of His Famous Alleged Remedy for Debility and Old Age, Dr. Variot's Experiments ... to Which Is Prefixed a Sketch of Dr. Brown-Séguard's Life, with Portrait

The Elixir of Life. Dr. Brown-Séguard's Own Account of His Famous Alleged Remedy for Debility and Old Age, Dr. Variot's Experiments ... to Which Is Prefixed a Sketch of Dr. Brown-Séguard's Life, with Portrait

Author: Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-23

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781376087857

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Brown-Séquard

Brown-Séquard

Author: Michael Jeffrey Aminoff

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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A chronicle of Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard's life which appraises his scientific legacy and gives a vivid account of his rich imagination, his creative approach to research, and his innovative methods of investigation."


The Book of Immortality

The Book of Immortality

Author: Adam Gollner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1439109435

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An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.


The Cult of Youth

The Cult of Youth

Author: James F. Stark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1108484158

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The first account of anti-ageing and rejuvenation in modern Britain, exploring hormones, diet, electrotherapy, exercise and skin care.


Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard

Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard

Author: Louis-Cyril Celestin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3319030205

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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 and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.


Social Order/Mental Disorder

Social Order/Mental Disorder

Author: Andrew Scull

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0429850360

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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkages between sex and madness, and the constitution, character, and collapse of the asylum as our standard response to the problems posed by mental disorder. This book is emphatically not part of the venerable tradition of hagiography that has celebrated psychiatric history as a long struggle in which the steady application of rational-scientific principles has produced irregular but unmistakable evidence of progress toward humane treatments for the mentally ill. In fact, Scull contends that traditional mental hospitals, for much of their existence, resembled cemeteries for the still breathing, medical hubris having at times served to license dangerous, mutilating, even life-threatening experiments on the dead souls confined therein. He argues that only the sociologically blind would deny that psychiatrists are deeply involved in the definition and identification of what constitutes madness in our world – hence, claims that mental illness is a purely naturalistic category, somehow devoid of contamination by the social, are taken to be patently absurd. Scull points out, however, that the commitment to examine psychiatry and its ministrations with a critical eye by no means entails the romantic idea that the problems it deals with are purely the invention of the professional mind, or the Manichean notion that all psychiatric interventions are malevolent and ill-conceived. It is the task of unromantic criticism that is attempted in this book.


History of Neurology

History of Neurology

Author: Stanley Finger

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-12-08

Total Pages: 971

ISBN-13: 0702035416

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Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Volume 95 is the first of over 90 volumes of the handbook to be entirely devoted to the history of neurology. The book is a collection of historical materials from different neurology professionals. The book is divided into 6 sections and composed of 55 chapters organized around different aspects of the history of neurology. The first section presents the beginnings of neurology: ancient trepanation, its birth in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt; the emergence of neurology in the biblical text and the Talmud; neurology in the Greco-Roman world and the period following Galen; neurological conditions in the European Middle Ages; and the development of neurology in the 17th and 18th centuries. The second section narrates the birth of localization theory; the beginning of neurology and histological applications, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, surgical neurology and other anatomo-clinical methods. The third section covers further development of the discipline, including methods of neurological illustration and hospitals in neurology and neurosurgery. This section also narrates the history of child neurology, neurodisability and neuroendocrinology. It also features the application of molecular biology on clinical neurology. The fourth section describes the dysfunctions of the nervous system and their history. The fifth and last section covers the regional landmarks of neurology and the different treatments and recovery. The text is informative and useful for neuroscience or neurology professional, researchers, clinical practitioners, mental health experts, psychiatrists, and academic students and scholars in neurology.* A comprehensive accounting of historical developments and modern day advancements in the field of neurology* State-of-the-art information on topics including brain damage and dysfunctions of the nervous system* New treatments and recovery methods from redundancy to vicariation and neural transplantation, amongst others