Imagining the brain : episodes in the history of brain research
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Imagining the brain : episodes in the history of brain research
(Progress in brain research, v. 243)
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2018
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
Table of Contents
Part 1. Imagining the brain between body and soul 1. Ventricular localization in late antiquity: The philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain function Jessica Wright 2. The pathological and the normal: Mapping the brain in medieval medicine William MacLehose 3. Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nerves Alexander Wragge-Morley 4. 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 5. The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell's anatomical watercolours Brendan Clarke and Chiara Ambrosio 6. Gertrude Stein's modernist brain Chiara Ambrosio 7. Imagining the brain as a book. Oskar and Cecile Vogt's "library of brains" Chantal Marazia and Heiner Fangerau 8. 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 9. From images to physiology: A strange paradox at the origin of modern neuroscience Paolo Mazzarello 10. 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 11. Seeing patterns in neuroimaging data Jessey Andrew Kenneth Wright
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