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Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the Eponym - Walusinski, Olivier, Professor
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This biography is the first comprehensive volume to delve into the life, scholarship, writing, and hobbies of the famed doctor, for whom Tourette's Syndrome is named. In Part One, we learn Georges' family history, follow his schooling and mentorship under Charcot, travel to the World's Fair of 1900, and evade an attempted assassination, all before succumbing to death by syphilis. Part Two provides an in-depth analysis of his neurological and psychiatric works, notably the eponymous neurological disorder that will forever ...

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Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the Eponym 2018, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190636036

Hardcover