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The animal spirit doctrine and the origins of neurophysiology / C.U.M. Smith [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurophysiology--History.
- Neurophysiology.
- Neurosciences--History.
- Neurosciences.
- Spirit--History.
- Spirit.
- Spirit--Philosophy.
- Neurophysiology--history.
- Neurosciences--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neurophysiology--history.
- Neurosciences--history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 16, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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