Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Celestin, Louis-Cyril
Titre(s) : Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard [Texte électronique] : the biography of a tormented Genius / Louis-Cyril Celestin
Publication : Cham : Springer, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xii, 281 pages))
Note(s) : Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 28 février 2014). - Comprend des références bibliographiques
Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life
of Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, 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-Sequard. 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
Sujet(s) : Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard (1817-1894)
Indice(s) Dewey :
610.92 (23e éd.) = Médecine et santé - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319030203
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44675123n
Notice n° :
FRBNF44675123
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Physiology in the Nineteenth Century ; The Birthplace ; The Forebears ; The Formative
Years: 1817-1837 ; The Medical Student: 1838-1846 ; The Lone Experimenter: 1846-1851
; The Visitor to America: 1852-1853 ; The Cholera Physician: 1854 ; The Richmond
Professor: 1854-1855 ; The Paris Practitioner: 1856-1857 ; The Itinerant Lecturer:
1856-1859 ; The London Consultant Neurologist: 1860-1864 ; The Harvard Professor:
1864-1867 ; The Paris Course Lecturer: 1869-1872 ; The New York Practitioner: 1872-1874
; The Indigent Physician: 1874-1877 ; The College de France Professor: 1878-1894
; The Father of Hormonal Therapy: 1889-1893 ; The Last Years: 1892-1894
