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Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience

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    Chapter 1 Chronology
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    Chapter 2 Brain and Mind in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 3 Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 4 Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement
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    Chapter 5 Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Life and Activities of James Parkinson (1755–1824)
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    Chapter 6 John Hunter's Contributions to Neuroscience
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    Chapter 7 William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) on the Nervous System
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    Chapter 8 1710: The Introduction of Experimental Nervous System Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit
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    Chapter 9 Irritable Glue: The Haller–Whytt Controversy on the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction
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    Chapter 10 The Taming of the Electric Ray: From a Wonderful and Dreadful “Art” to “Animal Electricity” and “Electric Battery”
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    Chapter 11 Luigi Galvani, Physician, Surgeon, Physicist: From Animal Electricity to Electro-Physiology
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    Chapter 12 The Vision of William Porterfield
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    Chapter 13 David Hartley's Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations
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    Chapter 14 Charles Bonnet's Neurophilosophy
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    Chapter 15 Swedenborg and Localization Theory
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    Chapter 16 Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller
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    Chapter 17 Apoplexy: Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 18 Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for Disorders of the Nervous System
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    Chapter 19 Gentleman's Magazine, the Advent of Medical Electricity, and Disorders of the Nervous System
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    Chapter 20 Therapeutic Attractions: Early Applications of Electricity to the Art of Healing
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    Chapter 21 John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders
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    Chapter 22 Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method
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    Chapter 23 Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 24 Technological Metaphors and the Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism and Dualist Mechanism
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    Chapter 25 Explorations of the Brain, Mind and Medicine in the Writings of Jonathan Swift
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    Chapter 26 Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century
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Chapter title
Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement
Chapter number 4
Book title
Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience
Published by
Springer US, January 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-70967-3_4
Book ISBNs
978-0-387-70966-6, 978-0-387-70967-3
Authors

Jonathan Reinarz, Reinarz, Jonathan

Editors

Harry Whitaker, C. U. M. Smith, Stanley Finger

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 2 18%
Librarian 1 9%
Professor 1 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 9%
Other 1 9%
Unknown 4 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 18%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 9%
Psychology 1 9%
Physics and Astronomy 1 9%
Social Sciences 1 9%
Other 1 9%
Unknown 4 36%