The emergence of a medical specialty (with particular reference to neurosurgery). Part III. Institutional factor
Abstract
The third part of this paper is focused on institutional factor of emergence of neurosurgery as a medical specialty. This factor includes setting up neurosurgery schools, postgraduate neurosurgical training, specialized departments, chairs and institutes, neurosurgical societies and journals. It is concluded that in the interwar period (1920-1930-s) became neurosurgery a separate medical specialty in USSR, Great Britain, France, Germany, USA and Canada. The theory of discipline-making factors might be used for study of emergence of other medical specialties and the phenomenon of specialization in medicine.
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B. L. Liсhterman
I.M. Sechenov First MSMU
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Boleslav Leonidovich Lichterman, MD, prof. of the chair of medical history, national history and culture studies
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