Fearful asymmetry : Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the localization of language, Paris 1825-1879 /

"Paul Broca's discovery that the left frontal lobe of the brain determines our ability to speak is a highpoint of human biology. Broca made this discovery as a young surgeon working not in the great anatomical laboratories of a prestigious university, but at the hospice at Bicêtre in the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leblanc, Richard, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Bouillaud, J. > (Jean), > 1796-1881.
Broca, Paul, > 1824-1880.
Dax, Marc, > 1770-1837.
Dax, Marc, > 1770-1837
Bouillaud, J. > (Jean), > 1796-1881
Broca, Paul, > 1824-1880
1800-1899
Brain > Localization of functions > Research > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Language and languages > Physiological aspects > Research > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Brain.
Brain
Language > history
Localisation cérébrale > Recherche > France > Paris > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Langage et langues > Aspect physiologique > Recherche > France > Paris > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Cerveau.
brains.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
MEDICAL > History.
Paris
France > Paris
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • FEARFUL ASYMMETRY
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Author's Note
  • PART ONE A Universe of Wonder within Our Tiny Globe
  • 1 Science Must Begin with Myth
  • 2 Gall and Flourens: Paris and Vienna, 1810-1824
  • 3 Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud: Paris, 1825-1848
  • PART TWO Descartes's Skull
  • 4 Louis-Pierre Gratiolet: La Société d'anthropologie de Paris, 1859
  • 5 Auburtin, Broca, and Tan: The Difference between Zero and One, February 1861
  • 6 The Great Regions of the Mind, August 1861
  • 7 Montpellier and the Métropole, March 1863
  • 8 Uncertainty and Adversity, April-July 1863
  • 9 Infamy and Chicanery, 1864
  • PART THREE A Singular Law
  • 10 A Terse and Disdainful Report, December 1864- April 1865
  • 11 An Inexplicable Mystery
  • PART FOUR The Critical Stage
  • 12 Sinistrality, 1865
  • 13 Broca's Last Case, 1866
  • 14 The Norwich Papers, 1868
  • 15 Dynamic Asymmetry, 1875-1879
  • Epilogue: Cortical Localization after Broca
  • APPENDICES
  • 1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Leborgne's and Lelong's Brains
  • 2 Broca's Papers on Language and Cerebral Asymmetry
  • Notes
  • Index.

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