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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 6, 1199-1200, June 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

JOHN HUGHLINGS JACKSON—FATHER OF ENGLISH NEUROLOGY.

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Paul Morrish

University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK

Biographies are written and read for many reasons. They can provide a study and analysis of the subject's environment, work and achievements, they can delve into the subject's personality and how that may have contributed to their achievements and they can document the subject's formative experiences. As well as the objective documentation of a life, the writer can give their own perspective on that individual. The reader can learn from the life of the subject and can draw caution or inspiration. Macdonald and Eileen Critchley have taken on and largely succeeded in the task of chronicling the life and work of the pre-eminent neurologist of his generation, one of the four founders of this journal. Perhaps their strongest motive in writing this book is given by Macdonald Critchley in his preface when he notes that `some readers in these modern times may not find it easy to understand the sheer . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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