Paul Broca by Francis Schiller
This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of speech, but statistics, hypnosis, blood transfusion, and the grounding of the French school of anthropology, as well. Although Broca is known primarily for providing the working basis for all future cerebral localization (he was the first to identify Broca's area --a small patch on the convoluted surface of the brain--as the central organ for speech), this portrait of Broca also describes his fundamental role in the establishment of modern scientific laboratory medicine, and his broad capacity and appetite for science as a whole. His enduring curiosity and insistent pursuit of truth led him through an exciting course of study, which often placed him philosophically in the position of utilizing doubt as his strongest investigative impetus. The author, Francis Schiller, --himself a neurologist-- underscores Broca's vast contributions to both practical and moral science with keen insights and scholarly acumen. Historians of science, neuroscientists, and general readers alike will enjoy this enlightening and important biography.
At the time of original publication, Francis Schiller, M.D., was Clinical Professor of Neurology and Senior Lecturer in the Department of the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a coeditor and contributor to The Founders of Neurology and the author of Paul Broca: Founder of French Anthropology, Explorer of the Brain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195074963 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195074963 |
| Title | Paul Broca |
| Author | Francis Schiller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | OUP India |
| Year published | 1992-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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