%0 Journal Article
%T Neurology and psychiatry clinics of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (1919–1934). Their faculty and functioning
%A Urbanek, Bożena
%J Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.024.10730
%N Volume 64, Issue 3
%P 55-71
%K Stefan Batory University, Vilnius, psychiatry, neurology in the first part of the 20th century, organization of clinics and chairs
%@ 0023-589X
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/neurologia-i-psychiatria-na-wilenskim-uniwersytecie-stefana-batorego-do-roku-1934-czasow-reorganizacji-warunki-funkcjonowania-i-kadra-naukowa
%X The article concerns the circumstances of the creation of neurology and psychiatry faculties at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, established in 1919. It presents the difficult working conditions of the teaching faculties created after the Partitions period – the strive for the correct equipment, localization and staff. It examines the changes in those two faculties in the period of 15 years, until they were merged into one administrative structure in 1934. It also shows the scientific and didactic efforts of those faculties, underlining the independence of the teaching from the usual European approaches to neurology and psychiatry. The article is based on the analysis if the sources taken from the Vilnius archives.