Brain, Mind and Medicine : Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.