Men of Dreams and Men of Action
Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, and the Performance of Professional Identity, 1920-1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15025835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Delia Gavrus (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-92 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2011.0020 |
| PMID | 21551917 |
| OpenAlex | W2068068745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 18 |
In the 1930s and 1940s, neurosurgeons and clinical neurologists engaged in a fierce exchange on the scope of their specialties. Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield's rhetoric of therapeutic superiority had a strong impact both on the Rockefeller Foundation's support for his institute and on the self-fashioning of neurologists. Neurologists articulated their identity in spirited performances at the meetings of specialist societies, their response shifting from a combative approach to a focus on internal organization. In light of the neurosurgeons' discourse, by the 1950s a new generation of neurologists created a revisionist narrative that inaccurately portrayed the clinical neurologists of the past as having been uninterested in therapeutics
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Art · Foundation (evidence) · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Scope (computer science) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History of Medical Practice · Law · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery
Speaking Secrets
Exercises in Therapy—Neurological Gymnastics between Kurort and Hospital Medicine, 1880–1945
Curtis’s Cephaloscope
Designing Penfield
Virtuosic craft or clerical labour
Historiographies of surgical innovation
Of Psychometric Means
History and Neuroscience
The Sleeping Beauty of the Brain
William Hunter and the eighteenth-century medical world
Science incarnate
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Visual Display
Gender Trouble
Fin De Siecle and Its Legacy
Harvey Cushing's Paradigmatic Contribution to Neurosurgery and the Evolution of His Thoughts about Specialization
Toward New Narratives of Twentieth-Century Medicine
Epidemic Encephalitis and American Neurology, 1919-1940
The Odd Case of Charles Knowlton
Atlantic Conjunctures in Anglo-American Neurology
Between the Ego and the Icepick
Rhetoric and the Social Construction of Sickness and Healing
Like a Devoted Army”
Ideals of Science and Their Discontents in Late Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
Oratory and Rhetoric in Renaissance Medicine
Surgery, Science and Modernity
The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions of the progress of reason
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |