From Clouds to the Brain

Оглавление

Celine Cherici. From Clouds to the Brain

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

From Clouds to the Brain. The Movement of Electricity in Medical Science

Foreword

Introduction

1. The Birth of an Electrical Culture: From Frankenstein to Hyde

1.1. “Re”creating life?

1.2. Changing and regulating behavior

1.3. Possible electrical profiling?

2. From Physics to Electrifying Physicists

2.1. Physics, knowledge of laws and nature of electricity

2.2. Medical physics: philosophical issues

2.3. Healing machines?

3. Controversial Electricity Applications

3.1. Paralysis

3.2. Nervous disorders

3.3. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological

4. Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology

4.1. Understanding life: heuristic experiments

4.2. Medical galvanism

4.3. Electrocentric life

5. Between Electrotherapy Rooms and Laboratories: Specializing Electricity

5.1. Electrical therapies: emergencies and interventionism

5.1.1. Deceptive diseases

5.1.2. When treatment depends on techniques

5.1.3. Electricity: a diagnostic tool for mental illness?

5.2. Exploration and recording of nervous system activities

5.2.1. Electrophysiology: measuring and exploring from 1848 onwards

5.2.2. Stimulations on animal and human brains: localist perspectives

5.2.3. Brain electricity recordings and the electric alphabet

6. Disorders and Resurgences of Electrical Neurostimulation Therapies: From Heath to Deep Brain Stimulation

6.1. Stimulation, control and improvement of moral and cognitive capacities

6.2. Deep brain stimulation and psychiatry

6.3. Man, brain and machine

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Historical Points of Reference

Appendix 2. Comparison of Tables of Contents

References

Index of Names. A

B

C

D

E, F

G

H

I, J, K

L

M

N

O, P

R

S

T

U, V

W, Y, Z

Index of Terms. A, B

C

D, E

F, G, H

I, L

M

N

O, P

R, S, V

WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Отрывок из книги

Series Editor

.....

The Cambridge Journal kept a full account of the experimental stages of this research and helped to disseminate it in society, where it asked a fundamental question: what is dying?:

The beheaded and hanged men of London and Glasgow were only the prelude to a medicine of reanimation, which throughout the 19th Century was concerned with the freshest cadavers, multiplying discussions on the definition of the thresholds of death and its reversibility. [BAR 06, p. 41, author’s translation]

.....