The Shocking History of Electric Fishes
The Shocking History of Electric Fishes

Author: Stanley Finger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-09-08

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0195366727

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This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book examines the importance of electric fishes in science and medicine and how three species in particular shaped neurophysiology. Anchored in the philosophy and science of past epochs, it is the story of one of Nature's greatest puzzles. Over a long and tortuous path, it focuses on how some numbing fishes helped to make physiology modern.

Books and Manuscripts of the Bakken
Books and Manuscripts of the Bakken

Author: Bakken Library of Electricity in Life

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13:

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The Bakken collection records the historical role of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine. ...impressive. --MEDICAL HISTORY

The Animal Spirit Doctrine and the Origins of Neurophysiology
The Animal Spirit Doctrine and the Origins of Neurophysiology

Author: C.U.M. Smith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0199766495

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This book examines the history of Western attempts to explain how messages might be sent from the sense organs to the brain and from the brain to the muscles. It focuses on a construct called animal spirit, which would permeate philosophy and guide physiology and medicine for over two millennia.