Charcot: Constructing Neurology [NEUROLOGY, MEDICINE]

Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated. New. 1995. Hardcover. 0195076435 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- -- IMPORTANT: Interior text is clean, tight, and Unmarked -- 392 ppIllustrated -- Pages are intact and tight to the spine - "The name of Jean-Martin Charcot is linked to Sigmund Freud and the study of hysteria and hypnotism. More importantly, Charcot was one of the founders of clinical neurology. Charcot spent his medical career at the Salpêtrière in Paris, a hospital, insane asylum and shelter for women, where he had access to a vast population of patients. Many of them suffered from chronic ailments and, living on the grounds of this large institution, could be followed for years. Charcot rigorously applied the emerging anatomo-pathologic approach to these patients, carefully describing their clinical abnormalities during lifetime and correlating these with macroscopic and microscopic autopsy findings. Concentrating on disorders of the nervous system, he was able to define and study major diseases, some of which bear his name: peroneal neuropathy (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease), neuropathic joints (Charcot joints) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also called Charcot's disease). Charcot was probably the most famous neurologist of his day, treating celebrities in his private practice and while travelling abroad. The first university chair for the study of neurologic diseases in France was created for him in 1882; his students included Babinski, Gilles de la Tourette and Pierre Marie. During the last 15 years of his career Charcot turned his attention to the study of hysteria (Sigmund Freud was one of his students). He made use of hypnotism and gave demonstrations of patients suffering from hysteria before audiences of medical and non-medical celebrities. This work increased his fame in France and abroad but was controversial and less scientifically secure. As a result of this (and of rivalry from competing schools), Charcot endured criticism during the last years of his career and life, but his role as a pillar of neurology remains uncontested. " -- with a bonus offer--; .