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Author Casper, Stephen T., author.

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

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester Univ Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Neurology -- Great Britain -- History.
Neurology.
Great Britain.
History.
Neurologists -- Great Britain -- History.
Neurologists.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780719091926
ISBN 9781526112590 (electronic book)
1526112590 (electronic book)
9781526112583 (electronic book)
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