Essays in the History of the Physiological Sciences

Proceedings of a network symposium of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health held at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, on March 26-27th, 1993
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-5183-646-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 23 mm

Reihe: Clio Medica

The history of the physiological sciences remains a field of investigation open to scholars of different origins and specialties. Recently, historians of science and medicine have paid attention to contemporary disciplines like genetics and molecular biology, immunology and neurobiology. However, physiology, as a mother science, remains a field of considerable historical and epistemological interest, due to its unique wealth of data, interpretations, theoretical models, and especially, its unanswered questions. Scholars interested in the experimental as well as the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the history of the physiological sciences in their broadest sense, and concerned by their place within the national and international frameworks of biomedical research, currently feel the need to meet, exchange ideas, and look for future forms of cooperation. In this spirit, a conference was organised by the Centre Européen d'Histoire de la Médecine and was held at the Medical School of the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg in March 1993. At this conference, we focused on the history of defined disciplines such as neurophysiology and endocrinology, as well as on international approaches to the history of the physiological sciences, in accordance with the research traditions and history of the University of Strasbourg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Debru, Claude

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Claude DEBRU: Foreword. List of authors. I. BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS. Pierre BUSER: Cent cinquante ans de faits, de théories et d'hypothèses sur l'intégration cérébrale: quelques exemples. Otto Joachim GRÜSSER: On the history of the ideas of efference copy and reafference. Olaf BREIDBACH: Understanding the functional architecture of cortical tissue in the XIXth century. Michael HAGNER: Aspects of brain localization in late XIXth century Germany. Jan JANKO: Mach and Hering's Physiology of Senses. II. BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR. Michael KUTZER: Tradition, metaphors, anatomy of the brain: the physiology of insanity in the late XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Alexandre MÉTRAUX: Combien de corps y a-t-il dans le corps? Quelques remarques à propos de la neurophysiologie du siècle des Lumières. Claude ARON: Naissance et évolution du concept biologique de bisexualité. III. ENDOCRINOLOGY. Christian BANGE: La controverse entre Gley et Moussu sur la spécificité des fonctions de la thyroïde et des parathyroïdes. Tilli TANSEY: Sir Henry Dale and autopharmacology: the role of acetylcholine in neurotransmission. David SMITH: Henry Dale, scepticism, theory, luck, strategy and tactics. IV. PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE, AND MEDICINE. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS. Jacques LAMBERT: La transformation chimio-physiologique de l'hygiène à la fin du XVIIIème siècle. Krzysztof JEZIORSKI: Evolutionism and embryology in the Warsaw physician milieu in the years 1859-1939. Christian BONAH: Physiology, periodicals, and national differences at the end of the 1860's.