Brain, Mind and Medicine : Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience - Whitaker, Harry; Smith, C.U.M.; Finger, Stanley; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Chronology -- Background -- Brain and Mind in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century -- Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century -- Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement -- Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Life and Activities of James Parkinson (1755-1824) -- The Nervous System -- John Hunter's Contributions to Neuroscience -- William Cullen (1710-1790) and Robert Whytt (1714-1766) on the Nervous System -- 1710: The Introduction of Experimental Nervous System Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit -- Irritable Glue: The Haller-Whytt Controversy on the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction -- The Taming of the Electric Ray: From a Wonderful and Dreadful "Art" to "Animal Electricity" and "Electric Battery" -- Luigi Galvani, Physician, Surgeon, Physicist: From Animal Electricity to Electro-Physiology -- Brain and Behaviour -- The Vision of William Porterfield -- David Hartley's Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations -- Charles Bonnet's Neurophilosophy -- Swedenborg and Localization Theory -- Medical Theories and Applications -- Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller -- Apoplexy: Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century -- Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for Disorders of the Nervous System -- Gentleman's Magazine, the Advent of Medical Electricity, and Disorders of the Nervous System -- Therapeutic Attractions: Early Applications of Electricity to the Art of Healing -- John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders -- Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method -- Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century -- Cultural Consequences -- Technological Metaphors and the Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism and Dualist Mechanism -- Explorations of the Brain, Mind and Medicine in the Writings of Jonathan Swift -- Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century.
Keywords: Neurosciences; History; Medicine-History.; Neurosciences; History of Science; History of Medicine