Gavrus Delia
History and Philosophy Science and technology, University of Toronto.
Bull Hist Med. 2011 Spring;85(1):57-92. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2011.0020.
In the 1930s and 1940s, neurosurgeons and clinical neurologists engaged in a fierce exchange on the scope of their specialties. Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield's rhetoric of therapeutic superiority had a strong impact both on the Rockefeller Foundation's support for his institute and on the self-fashioning of neurologists. Neurologists articulated their identity in spirited performances at the meetings of specialist societies, their response shifting from a combative approach to a focus on internal organization. In light of the neurosurgeons' discourse, by the 1950s a new generation of neurologists created a revisionist narrative that inaccurately portrayed the clinical neurologists of the past as having been uninterested in therapeutics.
在20世纪30年代和40年代，神经外科医生和临床神经学家就各自专业领域的范围展开了激烈的争论。神经外科医生怀尔德·彭菲尔德关于治疗优越性的言辞，对洛克菲勒基金会对其研究所的支持以及神经学家的自我塑造都产生了重大影响。神经学家们在专业学会的会议上积极表达自己的身份认同，他们的回应从好斗的态度转变为关注内部组织。鉴于神经外科医生的论述，到20世纪50年代，新一代神经学家创造了一种修正主义叙事，将过去的临床神经学家不准确地描绘为对治疗不感兴趣。
