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Author: Edwin Clarke
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780520078796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.
Author: Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0195063899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines ideas of the nature and localization of the functions of the brain in the light of the philosophical constraints at work in the sciences of mind and brain in the 19th century. Particular attention is paid to phrenology, sensory-motor physiology and associationist psychology.
Author: Edwin Clarke
Publisher: Norman Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1078
ISBN-13: 9780930405250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard I. Kushner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0674039866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Cursing Brain? traces the problematic classification of Tourette syndrome through three distinct but overlapping stories: the claims of medical knowledge, patients' experiences, and cultural expectations and assumptions.
Author: Randall Knoper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0192845500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigating the relations between American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the sciences of the brain and the nervous system, this volume shows how literary authors investigated, used and challenged this emerging neurophysiology.
Author: Amy Ione
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 3031623363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fay Bound Alberti
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-01-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 019160917X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body. Across cultures it is seen as the site of emotions, as well as the origin of life. We feel emotions in the heart, from the heart-stopping sensation of romantic love to the crushing sensation of despair. And yet since the nineteenth century the heart has been redefined in medical terms as a pump, an organ responsible for the circulation of the blood. Emotions have been removed from the heart as an active site of influence and towards the brain. It is the brain that is the organ most commonly associated with emotion in the modern West. So why, then, do the emotional meanings of the heart linger? Why do many transplantation patients believe that the heart, for instance, can transmit memories and emotions and why do we still refer to emotions as 'heartfelt'? We cannot answer these questions without reference to the history of the heart as both physical organ and emotional symbol. Matters of the Heart traces the ways emotions have been understood between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries as both physical entities and spiritual experiences. With reference to historical interpretations of such key concepts as gender, emotion, subjectivity and the self, it also addresses the shifting relationship from heart to brain as competing centres of emotion in the West..
Author: G N Cantor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 1000158853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 67 chapters of this book describe and analyse the development of Western science from 1500 to the present day. Divided into two major sections - 'The Study of the History of Science' and 'Selected Writings in the History of Science' - the volume describes the methods and problems of research in the field and then applies these techniques to a wide range of fields. Areas covered include: * the Copernican Revolution * Genetics * Science and Imperialism * the History of Anthropology * Science and Religion * Magic and Science. The companion is an indispensable resource for students and professionals in History, Philosophy, Sociology and the Sciences as well as the History of Science. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in an introduction to the subject.
Author: C. Prüll
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0230583741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current impact on drug discovery in the 21st century.
Author: Elizabeth A. Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 022669304X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Historians have begun to explore why and how eating has become problematic for more and more people. But so far little attention has been given to the problem of appetite -- the changing ways that the appetite for food is formed or how the views of scientific and medical experts on the subject have developed over time. In this book, Elizabeth Williams traces the history of academic inquiry into appetite's nature and functioning in the two centuries between 1750 and 1950, from the mid-Enlightenment to the dawn of big science. She reveals how appetite and eating came to be an object of scientific study by turning to advances in physiology, natural history, medicine, and, from the late nineteenth century, psychology and ethology. The author's goals are capacious, however, for she aims not only to convey the development of the science but, in so doing, to root out the cause of our modern nutritional disarray"--
