Brain, Mind and Medicine:: Essays in Eighteenth-Century NeuroscienceHarry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, Stanley Finger No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine. This volume explores neuroscience and reviews developments in anatomy, physiology, and medicine in the era some call the Age of Reason, and others the Enlightenment. Topics include how neuroscience adopted electricity as the nerve force, how disorders such as aphasia and hysteria were treated, Mesmerism, and more. |
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Contents
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Corpus Curricula Medical Education and the Voluntary | 43 |
Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter | 53 |
Introduction | 63 |
Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit | 99 |
Irritable Glue The HallerWhytt Controversy on the Mechanism | 115 |
Introduction | 211 |
Apoplexy Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century | 233 |
of the Nervous System | 245 |
Gentlemans Magazine the Advent of Medical Electricity | 257 |
Therapeutic Attractions Early Applications of Electricity | 271 |
John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders | 285 |
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism | 301 |
Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century | 321 |
The Taming of the Electric Ray From a Wonderful and Dreadful | 125 |
Luigi Galvani Physician Surgeon Physicist From Animal | 145 |
Introduction | 161 |
David Hartleys Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations | 177 |
Charles Bonnets Neurophilosophy | 191 |
Swedenborg and Localization Theory | 201 |
Introduction | 333 |
Explorations of the Brain Mind and Medicine in | 345 |
Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves | 353 |
Index | 371 |
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| Title | Brain, Mind and Medicine:: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience |
| Editors | Harry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, Stanley Finger |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0387709673, 9780387709673 |
| Length | 376 pages |
| Subjects | › › Medical / General Medical / History Medical / Neuroscience Science / History Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience |
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