1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465909203321

Autore

Aminoff Michael J (Michael Jeffrey)

Titolo

Sir Charles Bell : his life, art, neurological concepts, and controversial legacy / / by Michael J. Aminoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-19-061499-4

0-19-061497-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

617.092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Appendix 2. Charles Bell's Published Papers and LecturesAppendix 3. The Drawings and Paintings of Charles Bell; Appendix 4. Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath. His original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain has been called the Magna Carta of neurology. He described the separate functions of different parts of the nervous system, new nerves and muscles, and several previously unrecognized neurological disorders, and he characterized the features of the facial palsy and its associated features now named after him. His sketches and p



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910258752703321

Titolo

Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing / / edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78499-634-3

1-5261-2936-1

1-5261-0439-3

1-78499-696-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : map, portraits (black and white); digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Nursing history and humanities

Disciplina

610.7309

Soggetti

Public health nursing - Great Britain - Colonies - History

Nursing

Nursing - Social aspects

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published: 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The history of nursing presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism, as nurses were often a key conduit between coloniser and colonised. Many colonising powers used nurses as a means of insinuating their own cultures into the lives of indigenous people, yet despite the valuable insights such an approach reveals, colonial history has never before been approached from this particular direction. This book brings together a collection of essays from an international group of historians who examine the relationship between colonialism, nursing and nurses. Gender, class and race permeate the book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nurse are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources.