Whitaker / Smith / Finger Brain, Mind and Medicine:

Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-70967-3
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitaker, Harry

Smith, C.U.M.

Finger, Stanley

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Contributors list;9
3;Section A Introduction;12
3.1;Introduction;13
3.2;Chronology;15
4;Section B Background;21
4.1;Introduction;22
4.2;Brain and Mind in the ÎLongÌ Eighteenth Century;24
4.3;Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century;38
4.4;Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement;51
4.5;Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Life and Activities of James Parkinson ( 1755Ò 1824);61
5;Section C The Nervous System;69
5.1;Introduction;70
5.2;John HunterÌs Contributions to Neuroscience;73
5.3;William Cullen (1710Ò1790) and Robert Whytt ( 1714Ò 1766) on the Nervous System;91
5.4;1710: The Introduction of Experimental Nervous System Physiology and Anatomy by Fran¡ois Pourfour du Petit;105
5.5;Irritable Glue: The HallerÒWhytt Controversy on the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction;120
5.6;The Taming of the Electric Ray: From a Wonderful and Dreadful Ï ArtÓ to Ï Animal ElectricityÓ and Ï Electric BatteryÓ;130
5.7;Luigi Galvani, Physician, Surgeon, Physicist: From Animal Electricity to Electro- Physiology;149
6;Section D Brain and Behaviour;163
6.1;Introduction;164
6.2;The Vision of William Porterfield;166
6.3;David HartleyÌs Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations;180
6.4;Charles BonnetÌs Neurophilosophy;194
6.5;Swedenborg and Localization Theory;204
7;Section E Medical Theories and Applications;212
7.1;Introduction;213
7.2;Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller;215
7.3;Apoplexy: Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century;234
7.4;Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for Disorders of the Nervous System;245
7.5;GentlemanÌs Magazine, the Advent of Medical Electricity, and Disorders of the Nervous System;257
7.6;Therapeutic Attractions: Early Applications of Electricity to the Art of Healing;271
7.7;John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders;284
7.8;Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method;299
7.9;Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century;319
8;Section F Cultural Consequences;329
8.1;Introduction;330
8.2;Technological Metaphors and the Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth- Century French Materialism and Dualist Mechanism;332
8.3;Explorations of the Brain, Mind and Medicine in the Writings of Jonathan Swift;342
8.4;Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century;350
9;Index;367