Andrew J Larner – författare

Most of these occasional pieces, published over a period of almost 20 years and brought together for the first time in this volume, explore the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence "neuroliterature". Both literary and clinical accounts share narrative structure, and the former may inform a clinician's understanding of the patient experience of disease. Creative writers without medical training may describe neurological disorders based on their careful observations of the human condition, permitting a fruitful exchange of ideas in this interdisciplinary subject area. This book may be of interest to both practising clinicians and students of literature.

Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany gathers occasional and more substantive pieces written around the theme of medical history in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries including biographical pieces, considerations of the semiology of terms used in clinical medicine, and a miscellany of pieces on related medical topics. It will be of interest to those who are interested in literary portrayals of neurological disorders and builds upon and supplements Andrew Larner's previous volume (Neuroliterature. Patients, Doctors, Diseases. Literary perspectives on disorders of the nervous system) published in 2019.

Neuroliterature 3 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany is an exploration of the interrelationships between neurology and literature and will be of interest to those who are interested in medical history evidenced by literary portrayals of neurological disorders.As in the two previous volumes of Neuroliterature, published in 2019 and 2023, this volume gathers occasional and more substantive pieces written around the theme of medical history over a period of 40 years from 1985-2024.

The Second Edition of A-Z of Neurological Practice builds on the previous edition with revised and updated information in a high density but easily accessible format to provide a quick and ready reference for busy clinicians of all degrees of experience.

Neurology as practiced in the United Kingdom has long been recognised as a clinical discipline with a strong commitment to research. How did this bipartite structure, encompassing both clinical and research expertise, evolve?It is generally accepted that neurology as a distinct medical discipline originated in the 1860s and 1870s. Much of the existing historiography of British neurology has focused on the role of the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, the first institution specifically dedicated to the care of those with neurological disease, founded in 1860. In contrast, it is the argument of this book that work undertaken at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield in West Yorkshire in the decade 1866-1876 was a decisive contributor to the origins and evolution of British neurology in ways which differed from those enacted at Queen Square, in particular in its orientation to research.In his desire to pursue a scientific approach to insanity, James Crichton-Browne, the Medical Superintendent at West Riding Asylum, inaugurated changes which rendered it a “birth-place for neurology rather than as a stimulant for psychiatry”. Firstly, institutional change, building a dedicated pathological laboratory wherein research studies, both clinical and experimental, could be pursued. Secondly, changes to faculty, employing unpaid clinical assistants who could devote time to research studies. Thirdly, founding a house journal, the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports, for the publication and dissemination of research undertaken at the Asylum and also including material from established physicians working elsewhere, some of whom were invited to avail themselves of the clinical and experimental resources of the Asylum. Fourthly, arranging annual medical gatherings, termed conversazione, again for the dissemination of research undertaken at the Asylum as well as for the education and entertainment of local practitioners. In the corresponding time period, Queen Square remained an entirely clinical institution, lacking laboratory, clinical assistants, house journal, or public medical meetings.The source materials are synthesized into a new formulation of the shared past of neurology and psychiatry, establishing the work at the West Riding Asylum in this period as contributing decisively to the research ethos of the nascent discipline and thus forming an integral component in the origins of British neurology.