John Hughlings Jackson : father of English neurology / Macdonald Critchley, Eileen A. Critchley.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Oxford university press, 1998.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 228 p., [16] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. 1. The Jackson family background 2. Maternal ancestry, the Hughlings 3. Early education and life as a medical student 4. Leaving Yorkshire for London 5. The cholera epidemic in London 6. First neurological papers 7. Herbert Spencer, evolution and dissolution and the hierarchy of the nervous system 8. The epilepsies 9. Jackson's writings on the falling sickness reviewed 10. Jackson as morbid anatomist 11. The cerebellum 12. Aphasia: the early researches of Broca and Jackson 13. Further work on aphasia 14. Jackson's final writings on aphasiology 15. Reviews by Freud, Gowers, Head and others 16. Pierre Marie, the iconoclast and later writers on the breakdown of language 17. Jackson's achievement assessed by other neurologists 18. Foundation of brain and the Hughlings Jackson lectures 19. Jackson the man 20. Marriage, bereavement and honours 21. Tributes. Notes. Index
