Stroke is one of the most important and most feared conditions known to man. The threat of stroke is important to all people. What could be more devastating than to lose the ability to speak, move a limb, stand, talk, see, read, feel write or even think? This book brings together ideas, events and advances – the stories – before and during the 20th Century through the accounts of global experts in the field, many of them having been first-hand witnesses to progress. Focusing on selected stories of stroke, this book offers a readable summary of the most dramatic and extensive changes in knowledge about stroke and in caring for stroke patients. Of interest to anyone interested in neurosciences and for physicians caring for stroke patients, this book informs on moving forward, by looking to how we got to where we are.
- Provides a readable digest of the important developments in the care of stroke patients throughout the 20th Century to the present day
- Written by international leaders in the field of stroke, telling their often contemporary tales of ideas, events and advances that have shaped our current understanding and treatment of stroke
- Focuses on key individuals who were innovators, movers and shakers who moved the field along, emphasizing ideas and how they have evolved to now
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Reviews & endorsements
'This impressive and hefty book provides an excellent overview of stroke history in its entirety. It includes easily readable and referenced articles on topics most relevant to modern stroke care, lending important historical context that frames just how far the stroke field has progressed in the last 50 years.' Madeline Russell, Doody's Reviews

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Product details
- Date Published: December 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316516676
- length: 670 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 182 x 36 mm
- weight: 1.5kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Why this book needed to be written
Part I. Early recognition:
1. Hippocrates and early Greek medical practice
2. Early Greco-Roman contributions
3. Islamic and middle east contributions
Part II. Basic knowledge:
16th to early twentieth centuries. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology:
4. Andreas Vesalius
5. William Harvey. On the motion of the heart and blood
6. Thomas Willis. Anatomy of the brain and its vasculature
7. Giovanni Morgagni: emphasis on Pathology
8. Apoplexy. Ideas and concepts, 17-20th century
9. Atlases
10. Brainstem syndromes
11. Jules Dejerine
12. Arterial and Venous anatomy
13. Rudolf Virchow
14. Early medical and neurological textbooks
Part III. Modern era mid twentieth century to the present: A: Types of Stroke
15. Carotid Artery disease
16. Lacunes
17. Vertebrobasilar disease
18. Aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhage
19. Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH)
20. Vascular malformations
21. Venous and dural sinus thrombosis
22. Arterial dissections, Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD), MoyaMoya disease, and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (RCVS)
23. Blood Disorders
24. Stroke Genetics
25. Eye vascular disease
26. Spinal cord vascular disease
27. Charles foix
28. Houston Merritt and Charles Aring
29. C Miller Fisher
30. Louis Caplan
31. Cerebral angiography
32. Computed Tomography (CT)
33. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
34. Cerebrovascular ultrasound
35. Cerebral blood flow, radionuclides, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
36. Cardiac imaging and function
37. Stroke-related Terms
38. Epidemiology and risk factors
39. Data Banks and registries
40. Pediatric stroke
41. Care of stroke patients
42. Neurocritical care
43. Clinical stroke trials
44. Heparin
45. Warfarin
46. New oral anticoagulants/direct oral anticoagulants
47. Aspirin
48. Other antiplatelets
49. Other medical treatments
50. Neuroprotection
51. Thrombolysis
52. Treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis
53. Recovery and rehabilitation
54. Carotid artery surgery
55. Angioplasty and stenting
56. Endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke
57. Brain aneurysm treatment/treatment of aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhage
58. Medical and surgical treatments of intracerebral hemorrhage
59. Treatment of vascular malformations
Part IV. Stroke literature, organizations and patients:
60. Stroke organizations, journals and books
61. Famous stroke patients/prominent stroke patients.
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Authors
Louis R. Caplan, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
Louis R. Caplan MD attended Williams College where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1958. He graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1962 summa cum laude, the class valedictorian. After an intern and junior resident in Medicine at the Boston City Hospital he served in the US Army. His Neurology residency was on the Harvard Neurological Unit at the Boston City Hospital under Dr. Denny-Brown. He was a Stroke Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. C. Miller Fisher, In July 1970-1978, he was a staff Neurologist at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston where he founded the Harvard Cooperative Stroke Registry. 1978-1984 he was Neurologist-in-chief at the Michael Reese Hospital and Professor of Neurology at the University of Chicago. From 1984 to 1998 he was Neurologist-in-chief at the New England Medical Center and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University. In 1998, he returned to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is the author or editor of 51 books, mostly on aspects of stroke and over 750 articles and chapters in medical journals and books. He has been the Chairman of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and chair of the Boston and Chicago Neurological Societies. He has been on the editorial board of 30 different medical journals. He has delivered 52 named lectureships and has trained 81 stroke fellows and hundreds of Neurology residents.
Aishwarya Aggarwal, John F. Kennedy Medical Center
Aishwarya Aggarwal was born in Yamunanagar, Haryana, India. Her father Dr. Anil Aggarwal is a surgeon and mother Dr. Saroj Aggarwal a gynaecologist. She did her medical training at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana and then did an externship at Harvard Medical School. She is currently pursuing her Neurology residency at John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Edison, NJ, USA.