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A most up-to-date and unique biography of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
Focuses on the conflict between his professional and personal life
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, 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-Séquard. 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.
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“Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard is one of the most intriguing men to have ever lived. … anyone with an interest in the history of medicine, or neurology and endocrinology in particular, will find this a captivating synoptic view of an exciting and formative epoch in the evolution of medical science. Celestin has neatly partitioned Brown-Séquard’s chaotic lifeline into aptly titled chapters and this, more than anything else, helps make some sense of where Brown-Séquard was headed.” (Sushil Dawka, Internet Journal of Medical Update, Vol. 9 (2), July, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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London, United Kingdom
Louis-Cyril Celestin
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
Book Subtitle: The Biography of a Tormented Genius
Authors: Louis-Cyril Celestin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03020-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03019-7Published: 02 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35275-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03020-3Published: 19 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Medicine, Neurology