Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition

Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition

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Table of Contents: “…Chronology -- Background -- Brain and Mind in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century -- Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century -- Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement -- 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) -- The Nervous System -- John Hunter's Contributions to Neuroscience -- William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) on the Nervous System -- 1710: The Introduction of Experimental Nervous System Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit -- Irritable Glue: The Haller–Whytt Controversy on the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction -- The Taming of the Electric Ray: From a Wonderful and Dreadful “Art” to “Animal Electricity” and “Electric Battery” -- Luigi Galvani, Physician, Surgeon, Physicist: From Animal Electricity to Electro-Physiology -- Brain and Behaviour -- The Vision of William Porterfield -- David Hartley's Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations -- Charles Bonnet's Neurophilosophy -- Swedenborg and Localization Theory -- Medical Theories and Applications -- Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller -- Apoplexy: Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century -- Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for Disorders of the Nervous System -- Gentleman's Magazine, the Advent of Medical Electricity, and Disorders of the Nervous System -- Therapeutic Attractions: Early Applications of Electricity to the Art of Healing -- John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders -- Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method -- Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century -- Cultural Consequences -- Technological Metaphors and the Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism and Dualist Mechanism -- Explorations of the Brain, Mind and Medicine in the Writings of Jonathan Swift -- Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century.…”
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Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Wreck Check's Closing in on the Fortuyn Project - Graeme John Henderson, Andrew Viduka, Alex Moss and James Parkinson ; 6.…”
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