Harold L. Klawans

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Dr. Harold Klawans was a professor of neurological sciences and pharmacology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Dr. Klawans was an expert in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders and founded the Movement Disorder Clinic at Rush. He was president of the United Parkinson Foundation, a Chicago-based group that supports research in Parkinson's disease and related disorders, a pioneer in the use of L-dopa to treat Parkinson's disease and the author of more than 400 medical articles. Dr. Klawans' fame did not end in the medical field. In the 1980s, he launched a successful career as a mystery writer with his first novel, "Sins of Commission," which became a Book of the Month Club alternate selection. He published three more mystery stories and other books detailing case histories of neurological disorders, and he was praised by critics for making complex scientific analyses of infirmities compelling and understandable to the ordinary reader. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-04-01/news/9804010093_1_neurology-dr-harold-klawans-disorders

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And mother makes thirteen
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Trials of an expert witness
Representative edition published 1998
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Why Michael Couldn't Hit
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Chekhov's lie
Representative edition published 1997
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Life, death, and in between
Representative edition published 1992
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Trials of an expert witness
Representative edition published 1991
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Newton's madness
Representative edition published 1991
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Deadly Medicine
Representative edition published 1990
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Toscanini's fumble
Representative edition published 1990
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Newton's Madness
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Vascular diseases
Representative edition published 1989
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Vascular diseases
Representative edition published 1989
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Toscanini's Misslag
Representative edition published 1989
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Sins of commission
Representative edition published 1988
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The Jerusalem Code
Representative edition published 1988
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The medicine of history from Paracelsus to Freud
Representative edition published 1982
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Sins of commission
Representative edition published 1982
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Textbook of clinical neuropharmacology
Representative edition published 1981
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Text Neuropharmacology
Representative edition published 1981
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Handbook of clinical neurology
Representative edition published 1979
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Handbook of clinical neurology
Representative edition published 1978
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Clinical Neuropharmacol (Clinical Neuropharmacology)
Representative edition published 1978
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Clinical neuropharmacology
Representative edition published 1976
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Informed Consent
Representative edition published 1987
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