Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Imagining the Brain : Episodes in the History of Brain Research
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Edited by Chiara Ambrosio, William MacLehose
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Academic Press, 2018
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (xx, 323 pages) : color illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0128142588, 9780128142578, 9780128142585, 012814257X
- OCLC
- on1081334535
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Text in English.
- Part 1: Imagining the brain between body and soul. Ventricular localization in late antiquity: the philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain function / Jessica Wright -- The pathological and the normal: mapping the brain in medieval medicine / William MacLehose -- Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nerves / Alexander Wragge-Morley -- Gaetano Zumbo's anatomical wax model: from skull to cranium / Rose Marie San Juan -- Part 2: Representing the brain and the nervous system: styles, media, practices. The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell's anatomical watercolours / Brendan Clarke and Chiara Ambrosio -- Gertrude Stein's modernist brain / Chiara Ambrosio -- Imagining the brain as a book: Oskar and Cécile Vogt's "library of brains" / Chantal Marazia and Heiner Fangerau -- Pinpricks: Needling, numbness, and temporalities of pain / Lan A. Li -- Part 3: Inside the brain: arguments and evidence in the making of the modern neurosciences. From images to physiology: a strange paradox at the origin of modern neuroscience / Paolo Mazzarello -- One, no-one and a hundred thousand brains: J.C. Eccles, J.Z. Young and the establishment of the neurosciences (1930s-1960s) / Fabio De Sio -- Seeing patterns in neuroimaging data / Jessey Andrew Kenneth Wright
Subjects
- Brain -- Research -- History.
- Brain -- physiology.
Medical Subject Heading
- Biomedical Research -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- Neurosciences -- history.
Medical Subject Heading