Casper / Gavrus The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences

Technique, Technology, Therapy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78744-015-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 40, 318 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Medical History

How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casper, Stephen

Gavrus, Delia

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
"We Are Veritable Animals": The Nineteenth-Century Paris Menagerie as a Site for the Science of Intelligence
"Physiological Surgery": Laboratory Science as the Epistemic Basis of Modern Surgery (and Neurosurgery)
Configuring Epidemic Encephalitis as a National and International Neurological Concern
Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, ca. 1930
Epilepsy and the Laboratory Technician: Technique in Histology and Fiction
"What Was in Their Luggage?": German Refugee Neuroscientists, Migrating Technologies, and the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Research Networks in North America, 1933 to 1963
Dualist Techniques for Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain
A "Model Schizophrenia": Amphetamine Psychosis and the Transformation of American Psychiatry
Salvation through Reductionism: The National Institute of Mental Health and the Return to Biological Psychiatry
Coda: Technique, Marginality, and History
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index