Brain, mind and medicine : essays in eighteenth-century neuroscience /
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Table of Contents:
- A. Introduction. Introduction / Harry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, and Stanley Finger
- Chronology / C.U.M. Smith
- B. Background. Introduction / The editors
- Brain and mind in the 'long' eighteenth century / C.U.M. Smith
- Enlightening neurosciences: microscopes and microscopy in the eighteenth century / Brian J. Ford
- Corpus curricula: medical education and the voluntary hospital movement / Jonathan Reinarz
- 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) / Christopher Gardner-Thrope
- C. The nervous system. Introduction / The editors
- John Hunter's contribution to neuroscience / James L. Stone, James T. Goodrich, and George R. Cybulski
- William Cullen (1710-1790) and Robert Whytt (1714-1766) on the nervous system / Julius Rocca
- 1710: the introduction of experimental nervous system physiology and anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit / Lawrence Kruger and Larry W. Swanson
- Irritable glue: the Haller-Whytt controversy on the mechanism of muscle contraction / Eugenio Frixione
- The taming of the electric ray: from an wonderful and dreadful "art" to "animal electricity" and "electric battery" / Marco Piccolino
- Luigi Galvani, physician, surgeon, physicist: from animal electricity to electro-physiology / Miriam Focaccia and Raffaella Simili
- D. Brain and behavior. Introduction / The editors
- The vision of William Porterfield / Nicholas J. Wade
- David Hartley's neural vibrations and psychological associations / Robert B. Glassman and Hugh W. Buckingham
- Charles Bonnet's neurophilosophy / Harry A. Whitaker and Yves Turgeon
- Swedenborg and localization theory / Ulf Norrsell
- E. Medical theories and applications. Introduction / The editors
- Neuroscience in the work of Boerhaave and Haller / Peter J. Koehler
- Apoplexy: changing concepts in the eighteenth century / Catherine E. Storey
- Benjamin Franklin and the electrical cure for disorders of the nervous system / Stanley Finger
- Gentleman's magazine, the advent of medical electricity, and disorders of the nervous system / Hannah Sypher Locke and Stanley Finger
- Therapeutic attractions: early applications of electricity to the art of healing / Paola Bertucci
- John Wesley on the estimation and cure of nervous disorders / James G. Donat
- Franz Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism: dramatic cures, controversy, and ultimately a triumph for the scientific method / Douglas J. Lanska and Joseph T. Lanska
- Hysteria in the eighteenth century / Diana Faber
- F. Cultural consequences. Introduction / The editors
- Technological metaphors and the anatomy of representations in eighteenth-century French materialism and dualist mechanism / Timo Kaitaro
- Explorations of the brain, mind and medicine in the writings of Jonathan Swift / Marjorie Perlman Lorch
- Temperament and the long shadow of nerves in the eighteenth century / George Rousseau.