Viktor Mozalevsky. Paths, ways, encounters (conclusion)

Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001)

Viktor Hamburger [5] was an embryologist who focused on neural development [6]. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans Spemann [7] to the late 1980s at Washington University [8] resolving the role of nerve growth factor [9] in the life of neurons. Hamburger is noted for his systematic approach to science and a strict attention to detail. Throughout his life he...

Conclusion

Conclusion

Within half a century hospitals for children had become established features of the British medical landscape. By 1900, the formerly entrenched notion that sick children would not prosper away from home had given way to the other extreme. Now, it would seem, children required to be isolated in institutions entirely dedicated to their care. As Roger Cooter has indicated, there was a 'gradual dis...

Conclusion

Conclusion

Though Walvoord and McCarthy are the authors of this chapter, all team members have had input, and the chapter is based on the entire team's study. Thus "we" in this chapter refers to the team as a whole. We summarized some of our findings in Chapter 1 as a way of helping readers prepare for the classroom chapters. In this chapter, we complete that summary and we discuss implications of our stu...