Sherrington

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. The Early Years

   • William C. Gibson

   Pages 1-12

3. The Liverpool Professor

   • William C. Gibson

   Pages 13-23

4. Oxford 1914–1920

   • William C. Gibson

   Pages 24-32

5. The Years of the Presidency of the Royal Society, 1920–1925

   • William C. Gibson

   Pages 33-42

6. The Last Decade at Oxford 1925–1935

   • John C. Eccles

   Pages 43-74

7. Major Correspondents in His Later Years (Oxford and Thereafter)

   • William C. Gibson

   Pages 75-104

8. Sherrington The Philosopher of the Nervous System

   • John C. Eccles

   Pages 105-159

9. Books and the Man

   • William C. Gibson

   Pages 160-166

10. Sherrington the Poet

    • William C. Gibson

    Pages 167-177

11. Public Service

    • William C. Gibson

    Pages 178-181

12. The Final Philosophical Messages

    • John C. Eccles, William C. Gibson

    Pages 182-183

13. Epilogue

    • John C. Eccles, William C. Gibson

    Pages 184-185

14. Back Matter

    Pages 186-272

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So much has been written about the scientific contributions of Sherrington that the man himself, and his thoughts, have been overshadowed. More and more, students of history are calling for creative writing on the whole man, particularly when he is a genius. Those interested in the genesis of ideas want to know the settings for discoveries and the relevant circumstances which ushered in new truths and new insights. The "prepared mind" which Pasteur saw as the only one to be "favoured by fortune" is of immense importance in science, and our account of Sherring­ ton, we hope, will fill a very real gap in this field. During his life Sherrington actively discouraged any sugges­ tions that a biography be written. For that reason it was not until 1947 that there were any biographical notes by John Fulton, Graham Brown and A. D. Ritchie in a number of the British Medical Journal commemorating his ninetieth birthday, and in addition there was a leading article entitled "The Influence of Sherrington on Oinical Neurology". He left no autobiographical material except the few pages of reminiscences entitled "Mar­ ginalia", an essay written in honour of Charles Singer (1953).

• Life
• Sherrington, Charles Scott /Biographie
• biography
• birth
• brain
• hospital
• nervous system
• neurology
• urology

• Contra (Locarno), Switzerland

  John C. Eccles

• Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonnhoeffer-Institut), Göttingen, West-Germany

  John C. Eccles

• Department of the History of Science and Medicine, Medical School, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  William C. Gibson

Policies and ethics