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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: 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: Martina Zimmermann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-06-25
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1350121827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Wellcome Trust. The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia – regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life – is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changing scientific understandings of dementia, the book also demonstrates how cultural expressions of the experience and dementia have fed back into the way medical institutions have treated dementia patients. The book includes a glossary of scientific terms for non-specialist readers.
Author: 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: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 022669304X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science. Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. She shows how, in the eighteenth century, trust in appetite was undermined when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. She goes on to trace nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite between mechanists and vitalists, experimentalists and bedside physicians, and localists and holists, illuminating struggles that have never been resolved. By exploring the core disciplines in investigations in appetite and eating, Williams reframes the way we think about food, nutrition, and the nature of health itself..
