Hexagon Club and British Neurology between the Wars

AvAlastair Compston

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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In 1930, George Riddoch, Charles Symonds, Russell Brain, Hugh Cairns, Macdonald Critchley, and Derek Denny-Brown formed the Hexagon Club with the aim of discussing over dinner developments in medical and surgical neurology. Over the next 10 years, they met on 32 occasions, sometimes with guests, and discussed 42 topics of past or emerging clinical and research interest. Honed in this way, the presentations led to a large number of publications, many of lasting importance.This was a time of transition in medicine and society. The members’ lives illustrate the experience of medical service in the First World War carried forward to responsibility for developing neurological services during the Second World War; training in neurology and neurosurgery with independence from general medicine and surgery; developing the model of specialist departments distributed in regional centres adopted by the National Health Service; and the interplay of neurology and culture.Based on the only surviving copy of the Hexagon Club minutes and other previously unknown archival material, the book is written by a specialist able to summarise complex topics in neurology. It will attract general readers with an interest in medical history, neurologists and neurosurgeons interested in the evolution of their professional work, and historians of the medical profession in society during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:950 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Antal sidor:418
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041203599

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Alastair Compston, CBE, FRS, FMedSci, is a professor emeritus of neurology in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. His previous research focused on the clinical science of human demyelinating disease. In retirement, he writes on bibliography and the history of medicine. His previous publications include Simples and Rarities Suitable and Honorable to the College, a history of the Dorchester library of the Royal College of Physicians (2018); The Story of the National Hospital and Its Institute of Neurology (2019), and All Manner of Ingenuity and Industry: A Bio-Bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis, 1621–1675 (2021).

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IntroductionChapter 1The Hexagon Club: origins and membership.Chapter 2George Riddoch (27 December 1888–24 October 1947)Chapter 3Charles Putnam Symonds (11 April 1890–7 December 1978)Chapter 4Walter Russell Brain (23 October 1895–29 December 1966)Chapter 5Hugh William Bell Cairns (26 June 1896–18 July 1952)Chapter 6Macdonald Critchley (2 February 1900–15 October 1997)Chapter 7Derek Ernest Denny-Brown (1 June 1901–20 April 1981)Chapter 81st–3rd meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1930Chapter 94th–7th meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1931Chapter 108th–11th meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1932Chapter 1112th–14th meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1933Chapter 1215th–18th meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1934Chapter 1319th–21st meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1935Chapter 1422nd–25th meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1936Chapter 1526th–28th meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1937Chapter 1629th–31st meetings of the Hexagon Club: 1938Chapter 1732nd meeting of the Hexagon Club: 1939Chapter 18The Hexagon Club: a conspectus.

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