Charcot: Constructing Neurology

by Christopher G. Goetz, Toby Gelfand, Michel Bonduelle

In the second half of the 19th century, Paris became an international center for neurological studies largely because of Jean-Martin Charcot and his Salpetriere School. Charcot was named Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System at the University of Paris in 1882, and thus helped institutionalize neurology as a medical specialty. By then he had already published widely and had assembled a team of research specialists and students who approached...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195076435
• ISBN13: 9780195076431
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"