From clouds to the brain : the movement of electricity in medical science / Céline Cherici.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cherici, Céline.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series. Innovation and responsibility set

Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electricity in medicine.

Electricity in medicine--History.

Electricity.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Electricity.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : ISTE, Ltd. ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Birth of an Electrical Culture: From Frankenstein to Hyde

1.1. "Re"creating life?

1.2. Changing and regulating behavior

1.3. Possible electrical profiling?

Chapter 2 From Physics to Electrifying Physicists

2.1. Physics, knowledge of laws and nature of electricity

2.2. Medical physics: philosophical issues

2.3. Healing machines?

Chapter 3 Controversial Electricity Applications

3.1. Paralysis

3.2. Nervous disorders

3.3. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological

Chapter 4 Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology

4.1. Understanding life: heuristic experiments

4.2. Medical galvanism

4.3. Electrocentric life

Chapter 5 Between Electrotherapy Rooms and Laboratories: Specializing Electricity

5.1. Electrical therapies: emergencies and interventionism

5.1.1. Deceptive diseases

5.1.2. When treatment depends on techniques

5.1.3. Electricity: a diagnostic tool for mental illness?

5.2. Exploration and recording of nervous system activities

5.2.1. Electrophysiology: measuring and exploring from 1848 onwards

5.2.2. Stimulations on animal and human brains: localist perspectives

5.2.3. Brain electricity recordings and the electric alphabet

Chapter 6 Disorders and Resurgences of Electrical Neurostimulation Therapies: From Heath to Deep Brain Stimulation

6.1. Stimulation, control and improvement of moral and cognitive capacities

6.2. Deep brain stimulation and psychiatry

6.3. Man, brain and machine

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Historical Points of Reference

Appendix 2 Comparison of Tables of Contents

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Cherici, Céline From Clouds to the Brain : The Movement of Electricity in Medical Science

ISBN:

9781786305954

178630595X

OCLC:

1182837985

Publisher Number:

99986765905