Brown-Sequard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine

by Michael J. Aminoff

Brown-S?quard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged licentious behavior, and by other scientists for his unorthodox views and for claims that, in fact, he never made. An improbable genius whose colorful life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199742634
• ISBN13: 9780199742639
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"