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Sherrington His Life and Thought

So much has been written about the scientific contributions of Sherrington that the man himself, and his thoughts, have been overshadowed. More and more, students of history are calling for creative writing on the whole man, particularly when he is a genius. Those interested in the genesis of ideas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eccles, J. C., Gibson, W. C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1979, 1979
Edition:1st ed. 1979
Subjects:
Medical Sciences
Health Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Appendix 2. Extracts from “Marginalia” on Cambridge and London, c. 1880
  • Appendix 3. Grindelwald in Winter, 1887
  • Appendix 4. A Memorial of Ramon y Cajal, 1949
  • Appendix 5. Address on Medical Science
  • Appendix 6. Letter to Henry Head re W. H. Gaskell, 1918
  • Appendix 7. Osler at Oxford
  • Appendix 8. Some Aspects of Animal Mechanism
  • Appendix 9. Speech at the Reception of the Delegates to the Tercentenary Celebration of William Harvey’s “De Motu Cordis”
  • Appendix 10. Remarks at the Centenary Ceremonies of the Zoological Society (London, 1929)
  • Appendix 11. “Editorial Note” by Professor Samson Wright and “Foreword to 1947 Edition” by Sir Charles Sherrington
  • Appendix 12. Some Gifts to the British Museum
  • Appendix 13. Co-Operative Medical Library Service in London
  • Appendix 14. IntroductoryBroadcast for B.B.C. on “The Physical Basis of Mind”
  • Appendix 15. Honorary Degrees, Fellowships and Memorials
  • 1. The Early Years (w.c.g.)
  • 2. The Liverpool Professor (w.c.g.)
  • 3. Oxford 1914–1920 (w.c.g.)
  • 4. The Years of the Presidency of the Royal Society 1920–1925 (w.c.g.)
  • 5. The Last Decade at Oxford 1925–1935 (j.c.e.)
  • A. Oxford Hospitality
  • B. Sherrington’s Lectures at Oxford
  • C. The Mammalian Laboratory Class
  • D. Research
  • E. Sherrington’s Contribution to Theories of Nervous Function, 1924–1934
  • F. The Nobel Prize
  • G. Farewell to Oxford
  • 6. Major Correspondents in His Later Years (Oxford and Thereafter) (w.c.g.)
  • 7. Sherrington — The Philosopher of the Nervous System (j.c.e.)
  • A. The Rede Lecture
  • B. The Gifford Lectures: Man on His Nature
  • C. Goethe on Nature and on Science
  • 8. Books and the Man (w.c.g.)
  • 9. Sherrington the Poet (w.c.g.)
  • 10. Public Service (w.c.g.)
  • 11. The Final Philosophical Messages (j.c.e. and w.c.g.)
  • Epilogue (j.c.e. and w.c.g.)
  • Selected References
  • Appendix 1. C. S. Sherrington on Longfellow
  • Appendix 16. Last Entry in “Who’s Who”, 1952
  • Appendix 17. Memories by C.E.R. Sherrington

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