Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience /
Ideas we associate with the 18th century are clearly seen in work published from the latter decades of the 17th century through the first decades of the 19th century. This is the "long 18th century", a period which exhibits multiple discourses in medicine, brain science and philosophy. The...
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New York, NY :
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2007.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70967-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Chronology
- Background
- Brain and Mind in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century
- Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century
- Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement
- Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Life and Activities of James Parkinson (1755–1824)
- The Nervous System
- John Hunter's Contributions to Neuroscience
- William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) on the Nervous System
- 1710: The Introduction of Experimental Nervous System Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit
- Irritable Glue: The Haller–Whytt Controversy on the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction
- The Taming of the Electric Ray: From a Wonderful and Dreadful “Art” to “Animal Electricity” and “Electric Battery”
- Luigi Galvani, Physician, Surgeon, Physicist: From Animal Electricity to Electro-Physiology
- Brain and Behaviour
- The Vision of William Porterfield
- David Hartley's Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations
- Charles Bonnet's Neurophilosophy
- Swedenborg and Localization Theory
- Medical Theories and Applications
- Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller
- Apoplexy: Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century
- Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for Disorders of the Nervous System
- Gentleman's Magazine, the Advent of Medical Electricity, and Disorders of the Nervous System
- Therapeutic Attractions: Early Applications of Electricity to the Art of Healing
- John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders
- Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method
- Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century
- Cultural Consequences
- Technological Metaphors and the Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism and Dualist Mechanism
- Explorations of the Brain, Mind and Medicine in the Writings of Jonathan Swift
- Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century.