The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon by Cherry Lewis

The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon

Cherry Lewis

306 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) def...

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