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Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /
"In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
78. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain
- Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism
- Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen
- H.G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist
- Marie Corelli and the neuron.