Cognition and Recognition: On the Origin of Movement: Rademaker (1887-1957): A Biography: 6 (History of Science and Medicine Library, 6) - Hardcover

Hogenhuis, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004168362 ISBN 13: 9789004168367

Publisher: Brill, 2008

Synopsis

This book throws a penetrating light on the life and work of the physiologist turned neurologist G.G.J. Rademaker against the background of flourishing clinical research in the Netherlands of the early twentieth century. It charts the rise and fall of the branch of experimental neurophysiology of which Rademaker was a master, which was transmitted from Charles Sherrington in England to Rudolf Magnus at Utrecht and then to Rademaker, Magnus’s most talented pupil. Reaching its apogee in the 1920s and 1930s, it was replaced after World War II by other less invasive approaches. This biography is a fitting memorial to a man who, though somewhat neglected in his own land, was recognised as a genius by his peers worldwide.

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About the Author

Leon A.H. Hogenhuis, MD PhD, was born in Roermond (NL) in 1927, graduated M.D. in 1955 and PhD-DSc in 1969 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Leiden, from 1956-1957 Assistant in Clinical Neurology, University Hospital Leiden (Prof. Dr. G.G.D. Rademaker), from 1957-1958 Chief Assistant in Clinical Neurology, University Hospital Leiden (Prof. Dr. W. Verhaart), from 1958-1959 Assistant-étranger, Hospice de la Salpêtrière, Paris (Prof. R. Garcin). Entered in Register of Physicians and Surgeons, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, The Hague, 1962 and in Register of Specialists in Neurology and Psychiatry (i.e. Neuropathology and Psychopathology) of the Royal Dutch Medical Association, Amsterdam, 1962. He published extensively in Dutch and foreign scientific books and journals.

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This book throws a penetrating light on the life and work of the physiologist turned neurologist G.G.J. Rademaker against the background of flourishing clinical research in the Netherlands of the early twentieth century. It charts the rise and fall of the branch of experimental neurophysiology of which Rademaker was a master, which was transmitted from Charles Sherrington in England to Rudolf Magnus at Utrecht and then to Rademaker, Magnusa (TM)s most talented pupil. Reaching its apogee in the 1920s and 1930s, it was replaced after World War II by other less invasive approaches. This biography is a fitting memorial to a man who, though somewhat neglected in his own land, was recognised as a genius by his peers worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004168362
• ISBN 13: 9789004168367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 358