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

by C.U.M. Smith and Stanley Finger

Book Overview

Introduction.- Chronology.- Background: Introduction.- Brain and Mind in the 'Long' 18th Century.- Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy n the Eighteen 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: Introduction.- John Hunter's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441943684
• ISBN13: 9781441943682
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"