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The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences : Technique, Technology, Therapy /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gavrus, Delia (Editor ), Casper, Stephen T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • We are veritable animals : the nineteenth-century Paris menagerie as a site for the science of intelligence / L. Stephen Jacyna
  • Physiological surgery : laboratory science as the epistemic basis of modern surgery (and neurosurgery) / Thomas Schlich
  • Configuring epidemic encephalitis as a national and international neurological concern / Kenton Kroker
  • Circuits, algae, and whipped cream : the biophysics of nerve, ca. 1930 / Max Stadler
  • Epilepsy and the laboratory technician : technique in histology and fiction / Delia Gavrus
  • What was in their luggage? : German refugee neuroscientists, migrating technologies, and the emergence of interdisciplinary research networks in North America, 1933 to 1963 / Frank W. Stahnisch
  • Dualist techniques for materialist imaginaries : matter and mind in the 1951 festival of Britain / Stephen T. Casper
  • A model schizophrenia? : amphetamine psychosis and the transformation of American psychiatry / Justin Garson
  • Salvation through reductionism : the National Institute of Mental Health and the return to biological psychiatry / Brian P. Casey
  • Coda : technique, marginality, and history / Katja Guenther.