title: Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961), neurosurgeon, physiologist, philosopher.
abstract: In the centenary year of his birth, the work of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961) is reviewed with special reference to his views on the seat of consciousness and on the application to medicine of the scientific method.
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D004739:England; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history; D010827:Physiology