Background
Schiller, Francis was born on January 23, 1909 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Friedrich and Luise (Mannheimer) Schiller. came to the United States, 1950.
(This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recou...)
This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of speech, but statistics, hypnosis, blood transfusion, and the grounding of the French school of anthropology, as well. Although Broca is known primarily for providing the working basis for all future cerebral localization (he was the first to identify "Broca's area" --a small patch on the convoluted surface of the brain--as the central organ for speech), this portrait of Broca also describes his fundamental role in the establishment of modern scientific "laboratory" medicine, and his broad capacity and appetite for science as a whole. His enduring curiosity and insistent pursuit of truth led him through an exciting course of study, which often placed him philosophically in the position of utilizing doubt as his strongest investigative impetus. The author, Francis Schiller, --himself a neurologist-- underscores Broca's vast contributions to both practical and moral science with keen insights and scholarly acumen. Historians of science, neuroscientists, and general readers alike will enjoy this enlightening and important biography.
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Schiller, Francis was born on January 23, 1909 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Friedrich and Luise (Mannheimer) Schiller. came to the United States, 1950.
Doctor of Medicine, German University, Prague, 1933.
With, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, 1951-1979; clinical professor neurology, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, 1972; emeritus professor, neurology, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, 1979; neurologist, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, 1953-1978; consultant neurology, Public Health Svc., San Francisco, 1978-1981; consultant neurology, VA Compensation & Pension, San Francisco, since 1984. Senior lecturer history and health science University of California, San Francisco, since 1962.
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Fellow American Academy Neurology, San Francisco Neurology Society. Member International Academy History of Medicine, Bay Area History of Medicine Club (president San Francisco cht. 1975-1976).