| Men of dreams and men of action: neurologists, neurosurgeons, and the performance of professional identity, 1920-1950. | |
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PMID: 21551917 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Summary: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. |
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Delia Gavrus |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Bulletin of the history of medicine Volume: 85 ISSN: 0007-5140 ISO Abbreviation: Bull Hist Med Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-05-09 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0141233 Medline TA: Bull Hist Med Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 57-92 Citation Subset: IM; Q |
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