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Kurt Goldstein

Who

Kurt Goldstein · Science & Medicine

What

Neurologist and founder of the holistic and organismic approach to brain function.

When

1878, Kattowitz, Germany (now Katowice, Poland) — 1965, New York City, United States

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Kurt Goldstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Neurologist and founder of the holistic and organismic approach to brain function.

How & why

Goldstein was a neurologist and psychiatrist who founded a holistic, 'organismic' approach to brain function, studying brain-injured soldiers and arguing the organism must be understood as an integrated whole. He was born into a Jewish family in Kattowitz and fled Nazi Germany, continuing his career in the United States.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

Contributions & Sources

Neurologist and founder of the holistic and organismic approach to brain function.

1878

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology