Imagining the brain episodes in the history of brain research / edited by Chiara Ambrosio, William MacLehose.
| Other author | Ambrosio, Chiara. |
| Other author | MacLehose, William F. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA, United States : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2018. |
| Description | xx, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Book Series Package - Life Sciences [BSLFSC] |
| Subjects |
| Series | Progress in brain research, 0079-6123 ; Volume 243 Progress in brain research v. 243. ^A75148 |
| Contents | 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, 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, 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 Wright. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (ScienceDirect, viewed December 10, 2018). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021301536 |
| ISBN | 9780128142578 hardback |
| ISBN | 012814257X hardback |
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