Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought / Anne Harrington.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Harrington, Anne., Author.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conferinţă de Sudura şi Încercari de Metale.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

Digit. repr. d. Ausg. 1989.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

A Note on References and Style

MEDICINE, MIND, AND THE DOUBLE BRAIN

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE The Pre-1860 Legacy

CHAPTER TWO Language Localization and the Problem of Asymmetry

CHAPTER THREE Left-Right Polarities of Mind and Brain

CHAPTER FOUR The Post-Broca Case for "Duality of Mind": Basic Issues and Themes

CHAPTER FIVE Left-Brain versus Right-Brain Selves and the Problem of the Corpus Callosum

CHAPTER six The "Experimental Evidence": Metalloscopy and Hemi-Hypnosis

CHAPTER SEVEN The Hughlings Jackson Perspective

CHAPTER EIGHT Freud and Jackson's Double Brain: The Case for a Psychoanalytic Debt

CHAPTER NINE The Fate of the Double Brain

APPENDIX: Guide to the Major Structures of the Human Brain Discussed in This Study

Addenda

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-328) and index.

Teilw. zugl.: Oxford, Univ., Diss., 1985 u.d.T.: Harrington, Anne: Hemisphere differences and "duality of mind" in nineteenth century medical science.

Literaturverz. S. 291 - 328.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691084657

0691084653

9780691228174

0691228175

OCLC:

1242877129