'All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity': A Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675

ISBN-13: 9780198795391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 824 str.

Alastair Compston

Recenzje

This book is a superb work of scholarship and allows the reader to marvel at Willis's early contributions to medicine. The biographical sections are detailed and informative, the bibliography of work is encyclopedic in scope, and the accompanying analysis provides an excellent commentary and analysis of Willis's achievements. The references are detailed in the accompanying footnotes and will allow future researchers more source material for reading. The author has produced an outstanding scholarly contribution to the medical history literature.

O autorze

Alastair Compston is professor emeritus of neurology in the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and was formerly president of the European Neurological Society and the Association of British Neurologists, and editor of Brain, a journal of neurology. His research on the clinical science of human demyelinating disease has been recognised by several international prizes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences; and is elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Germany and the National Academy of Medicine of the USA. He has been appointed Commander of the British Empire. He has a longstanding interest in antiquarian books. His main activity in retirement is writing on the history of medicine