This collection adds up to a very welcome and readable widening of standard medical accounts of the history of neurology. Readers, medical and non-medical, can thus turn to the book for information, for appreciation of what historians have and have not done, and for stimulus from the range of contemporary practice in the history of medicine. BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY ... Read moreOF MEDICINE This book is very readable, and its chapters achieve a good deal of coherence. The two final parts closely analyze the place of the patient in the evolution of the discipline [of neurology]. Taken together with the Introduction, they form a brilliant frame for the other articles in this collective work. GESNERUS An important contribution to the field that promises to elicit further research by these and other scholars committed to exploring what makes the neurological patient so intriguing-not just for medical history, but for the field of history in general. H-NET An important and imaginatively organized contribution to the largely unstudied
but crucial
history of the interaction between specialization, disease concepts, patient needs, and clinical practice. This book is relevant to any serious student of medical history or the sociology of medicine.
Charles E. Rosenberg, professor of the history of science, and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the social sciences, Harvard University The Neurological Patient in History is a valuable and welcome addition to the historiography. It not only places the neurological patient firmly in the spotlight, it also encourages readers to re-examine the patient using fresh and thought-provoking lines of enquiry.... This volume will be used as a reference text for years to come. REVIEWS IN HISTORY A satisfyingly eclectic account of how patients have been diagnosed and treated and how they have experienced health and illness during the last one hundred and fifty years. There are many fine contributions to this volume. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Show Less