Author: Alexander G. Bearn
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISBN: 9781860163029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Monograph looking at the life of Sir Clifford Allbutt, inventor of the short themometer and responsible for introducing the opthalmoscope, weighing machine and microscope to the wards.
Sir Clifford Allbutt
Author: Alexander G. Bearn
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISBN: 9781860163029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Monograph looking at the life of Sir Clifford Allbutt, inventor of the short themometer and responsible for introducing the opthalmoscope, weighing machine and microscope to the wards.
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISBN: 9781860163029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Monograph looking at the life of Sir Clifford Allbutt, inventor of the short themometer and responsible for introducing the opthalmoscope, weighing machine and microscope to the wards.
The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt ...
Author: Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Right Honorable Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Author: Humphrey Davy Rolleston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494086640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494086640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Author: Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Imagining Italy
Author: Michael Hollington
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443824615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is a companion volume to Dickens and Italy, edited by Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano, which aimed to fill an important gap in our understanding of England’s paramount novelist by studying his personal, political and literary relation to the foreign country he loved best of all of those he visited. Its focus is wider and its scope more ambitious and speculative. Without in any way leaving Dickens or his writings about Italy behind, the attempt here is to approach the Victorian fascination with that country from a broader, more theoretical perspective in which several current debates about travel writing are taken up and critically redeployed. The book is articulated in three parts. Part One concerns what the writings of Dickens and other Victorians can tell us about the history and theory of travel and travel writing, and Part Two, what they can tell us about particular Victorian writers themselves and their work. In Part Three the focus shifts in order to compare writing and visual representations of the experience of ‘abroad’ in general and Italy in particular, in an era when what can be thought of as modern visual culture is gradually taking shape. The book aims to show that the study of how Victorians imagined Italy can lead to a deeper understanding of some of the stereotypes that continue to inform contemporary tourism.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443824615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is a companion volume to Dickens and Italy, edited by Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano, which aimed to fill an important gap in our understanding of England’s paramount novelist by studying his personal, political and literary relation to the foreign country he loved best of all of those he visited. Its focus is wider and its scope more ambitious and speculative. Without in any way leaving Dickens or his writings about Italy behind, the attempt here is to approach the Victorian fascination with that country from a broader, more theoretical perspective in which several current debates about travel writing are taken up and critically redeployed. The book is articulated in three parts. Part One concerns what the writings of Dickens and other Victorians can tell us about the history and theory of travel and travel writing, and Part Two, what they can tell us about particular Victorian writers themselves and their work. In Part Three the focus shifts in order to compare writing and visual representations of the experience of ‘abroad’ in general and Italy in particular, in an era when what can be thought of as modern visual culture is gradually taking shape. The book aims to show that the study of how Victorians imagined Italy can lead to a deeper understanding of some of the stereotypes that continue to inform contemporary tourism.
John Hughlings Jackson
Author: Samuel H. Greenblatt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192652281
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was a preeminent British neurologist who is widely recognized today as one of the leading founders of modern clinical neurology and neuroscience. He had a unique ability to translate messy clinical data into viable neuroscientific conceptions. This ability served him well, because in his early years knowledge of cerebral organization was quite rudimentary. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) faced the same problem at the same time in the 1860s, and each man recognized the other's work at a fundamental level. Although Jackson's historical standing has increased over the century since his death, there is only one full-length biography, the Critchleys' John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology (OUP 1998). Like the numerous articles and chapters that have been written about Jackson, that book is sometimes inaccurate and often hagiographic. In this new biography, John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution and Victorian Brain Science, Samuel H. Greenblatt provides a critical analysis of Jackson's work within the professional, social, and intellectual contexts of his Victorian milieu. The book follows Jackson's intellectual development through a close examination of his published writings, in chronological order, from the case reports and Suggestions of his early medical career to the major lectures he delivered in his later years. The text is supplemented with a comprehensive bibliography of Jackson's writings that will be of practical use to scholars of his work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192652281
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was a preeminent British neurologist who is widely recognized today as one of the leading founders of modern clinical neurology and neuroscience. He had a unique ability to translate messy clinical data into viable neuroscientific conceptions. This ability served him well, because in his early years knowledge of cerebral organization was quite rudimentary. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) faced the same problem at the same time in the 1860s, and each man recognized the other's work at a fundamental level. Although Jackson's historical standing has increased over the century since his death, there is only one full-length biography, the Critchleys' John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology (OUP 1998). Like the numerous articles and chapters that have been written about Jackson, that book is sometimes inaccurate and often hagiographic. In this new biography, John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution and Victorian Brain Science, Samuel H. Greenblatt provides a critical analysis of Jackson's work within the professional, social, and intellectual contexts of his Victorian milieu. The book follows Jackson's intellectual development through a close examination of his published writings, in chronological order, from the case reports and Suggestions of his early medical career to the major lectures he delivered in his later years. The text is supplemented with a comprehensive bibliography of Jackson's writings that will be of practical use to scholars of his work.
Southwestern Medicine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Brontes
Author: Harold Orel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349251992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best testimony about what kinds of men and women they really were comes from statements they made themselves; but because their autobiographical commentaries are sparse, the record is usefully supplemented in this anthology by first-hand statements made not only by various inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte family in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349251992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best testimony about what kinds of men and women they really were comes from statements they made themselves; but because their autobiographical commentaries are sparse, the record is usefully supplemented in this anthology by first-hand statements made not only by various inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte family in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere.
Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty
Author: J. Rosser Mathews
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Since its inception in World War II, the clinical trial has evolved into a standard procedure in determining therapeutic efficacy in many Western industrial democracies. Its features include a "control" group of patients that do not receive the experimental treatment, the random allocation of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statistics in a therapeutic context has a much longer history. From that history J. Rosser Matthews chooses to discuss three crucial debates: that among clinicians before the Parisian Academy of Medicine in 1837, the debate in the German physiological literature during the 1850s, and, in the early twentieth century, the debate over the bacteriologist's diagnostic technique involving the "opsonic index." Matthews demonstrates that despite the very real differences separating clinician, physiologist, and bacteriologist, they all shared an antipathy toward the methods of the statistician. Since they viewed medical judgment as a form of "tacit knowledge," they downplayed the concerns of the medical statistician who was attempting to make medical inference into something explicit and quantitative. Only when "medical decision-making" moved from the cloistered confines of professional medical expertise into the arena of open political debate could the medical statistician (and the clinical trial) gain the upper hand.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Since its inception in World War II, the clinical trial has evolved into a standard procedure in determining therapeutic efficacy in many Western industrial democracies. Its features include a "control" group of patients that do not receive the experimental treatment, the random allocation of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statistics in a therapeutic context has a much longer history. From that history J. Rosser Matthews chooses to discuss three crucial debates: that among clinicians before the Parisian Academy of Medicine in 1837, the debate in the German physiological literature during the 1850s, and, in the early twentieth century, the debate over the bacteriologist's diagnostic technique involving the "opsonic index." Matthews demonstrates that despite the very real differences separating clinician, physiologist, and bacteriologist, they all shared an antipathy toward the methods of the statistician. Since they viewed medical judgment as a form of "tacit knowledge," they downplayed the concerns of the medical statistician who was attempting to make medical inference into something explicit and quantitative. Only when "medical decision-making" moved from the cloistered confines of professional medical expertise into the arena of open political debate could the medical statistician (and the clinical trial) gain the upper hand.
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Author: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.