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The history of the brain and mind sciences : technique, technology, therapy / edited by Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus.

Van Pelt Library QP360 .H57 2017
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Casper, Stephen T., editor.
Gavrus, Delia, editor.
Series:
Rochester studies in medical history
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Neurosciences--History.
Neurosciences.
History.
Neurology--History.
Neurology.
Brain--Physiology.
Brain.
Neurosciences--history.
Neurology--history.
Brain--physiology.
Medical Subjects:
Neurosciences--history.
Neurology--history.
Brain--physiology.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
vi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Rochester, NY, USA : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2017.
Contents:
Introduction / Delia Gavrus and Stephen T. Casper
"We are veritable animals" : the nineteenth-century Paris menagerie as a site for the science of intelligence / L. Stephen Jacyna
"Physiological surgery" : laboratory science as the epistemic basis of modern surgery (and neurosurgery) / Thomas Schlich
Configuring epidemic encephalitis as a national and international neurological concern / Kenton Kroker
Circuits, algae, and whipped cream : the biophysics of nerve, ca. 1930 / Max Stadler
Epilepsy and the laboratory technician : technique in histology and fiction / Delia Gavrus
"What was in their luggage?" : German refugee neuroscientists, migrating technologies, and the emergence of interdisciplinary research networks in North America, 1933 to 1963 / Frank W. Stahnisch
Dualist techniques for materialist imaginaries : matter and mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain / Stephen T. Casper
A "model schizophrenia" : amphetamine psychosis and the transformation of American psychiatry / Justin Garson
Salvation through reductionism : the National Institute of Mental Health and the return to biological psychiatry / Brian P. Casey
Coda : technique, marginality, and history / Katja Guenther.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index.
ISBN:
9781580465953
1580465951
OCLC:
974965322

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