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
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoCambridge, MA, United States : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2018.
Descriptionxx, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Book Series Package - Life Sciences [BSLFSC]
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SeriesProgress 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from electronic title page (ScienceDirect, viewed December 10, 2018).
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021301536
ISBN9780128142578 hardback
ISBN012814257X hardback

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