Parkinson's true passion

• Autores: Cherry Lewis
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3122, 2017, págs. 42-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • James Parkinson was many things: apothecary, surgeon, scientist, political radical, closet heretic. Today, most people know his name solely through the disease that immortalized it. A shame, because medicine was just one of Parkinson's passions: he was described in his lifetime as "not merely the best but almost the only fossilist of his day". And fossils, back then, were troublemakers. As a result, Parkinson struggled to reconcile the widely accepted biblical story of creation with the conflicting story being revealed to him by fossils. Here, Lewis discusses the contributions of Parkinson in medicine