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The Neurologists: A History of a Medical Specialty in Modern Britain, c.1789–2000 (2014)

Casper, Stephen T. (Author)

Manchester University Press

ISBN: 9780719091926

Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 256 pp.
Language: English

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Specialization Discipline formation Medicine, modern Primary literature (historical sources) Physicians; doctors Neurology 20th century 19th century Great Britain

With its attention chiefly on Great Britain, The Neurologists 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. Relying entirely upon hitherto unseen primary sources drawn from archives across Britain, Europe and North America, this book analyses the emergence of neurology in the context of the development of modern medicine in Britain.The Neurologists thus surveys the patterns of change and modernisation that influenced British medical culture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. In so doing, it ultimately seeks an account of how neurological knowledge acquired such an expansive view of human nature as to become concerned in the last decades of the twentieth century with the human sciences, philosophy, art and literature. In short, The Neurologists explains how and why neurology achieved its contemporary cultural status.

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Review Rachel Elder (2017) Review of "The Neurologists: A History of a Medical Specialty in Modern Britain, c.1789–2000". Social History of Medicine (pp. 712-713). unapi

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