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Neuroscience across the centuries / edited by Frank Clifford Rose.
- Title
- Neuroscience across the centuries / edited by Frank Clifford Rose.
- Publication
- London, UK : Smith-Gordon ; Niigata-Shi, Japan : Nishimura, 1989.
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- Description
- viii, 246 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A study of the history of neurology. As well as looking at topics ranging from pathology to neurophilosophy, it contains biographies, including Fridtjof Nansen, who was a pioneer of Arctic exploration and the scientist who developed the concept of the neuron.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Papers from the XIV World Congress of Neurology, held in Delhi in 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What can a neurologist contribute to the history of medicine?, L.J. Endtz; from brain pathology to neurophilosophy, E. Oeser and F. Seitelberger; ancient Indian neurology, E.P. Bharucha and N.E. Bharucha; migraine phylakteria -- magic treatment of migraine, G.W. Bruyn; cerebral circulation -- a historical outline of the main advances up to the beginning of the 20th century, G. Zanchin et al; neurology and mental atomism -- some continuities and discontinuities, C.U.M. Smith; social systems reflected in the history of basic neuropsychology, F. Schiller; Emanuel Swedenborg's theories on the structure and function of the nervous system, B. Norrving and P. Sourander; Fritjof Nansen and the neuron theory, J. A. Aarli; the origins of neurology in the 17th century, H. Isler; Thomas Willis -- the first Oxford neuropathologist, J.T. Hughes; extrapyramidal system and extrapyramidal disorders, A. Albanese; John Hughlings Jackson's rejection of the mind-brain identity thesis, M.S. Elkind; the work and thought of C.S. Sherrington between 1890 and 1910, E. Bullmore; Brown-Sequard's localization concept -- the relationship between Sherrington's integrative action of the nervous system, P.J. Koehler; the father of us all -- Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and teacher, C.G. Goetz; neuro-opthalmology in 19th-century Paris -- pioneering work on conjugate gaze, S. Shanzer; George H. Monrad-Krohn -- from Norway to the world, M.M. Cohen; Charles Gilbert Chaddock, Kisaku Yoshimura and the Babinski reflex, K. Tashiro; classical aphasia -- there is no alternative?, E. Whitcombe; Jacques Lordat's contributions to aphasiology, V.W. Henderson; James Hinshelwood and word blindness, W.M.H. Behan and P.O. Behan; epilepsy in ancient Indian medicine, E.P. Bharucha and N.E. Bharucha; Gower's border-land of epilepsy, G.D. Perkin; neuromuscular disorders in "Ayurveda" -- an ancient medical treatise of India, S.K. Mishra; a pioneer in the electrophysiology of skin and muscle -- Martin Gil.
- ISBN
- 1854630156
- 1856430156 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 21906330
- SCSB-11432939
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library