The history of the brain and mind sciences : technique, technology, therapy / edited by Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus.

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Language
English
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  • Rochester, NY, USA : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2017.
  • ©2017
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vi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index.
    Contents
    • "We are veritable animals" : the nineteenth-century Paris menagerie as a site for the science of intelligence / L. Stephen Jacyna
    • "Physiological surgery" : laboratory science as the epistemic basis of modern surgery (and neurosurgery) / Thomas Schlich
    • Configuring epidemic encephalitis as a national and international neurological concern / Kenton Kroker
    • Circuits, algae, and whipped cream : the biophysics of nerve, ca. 1930 / Max Stadler
    • Epilepsy and the laboratory technician : technique in histology and fiction / Delia Gavrus
    • "What was in their luggage?" : German refugee neuroscientists, migrating technologies, and the emergence of interdisciplinary research networks in North America, 1933 to 1963 / Frank W. Stahnisch
    • Dualist techniques for materialist imaginaries : matter and mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain / Stephen T. Casper
    • A "model schizophrenia" : amphetamine psychosis and the transformation of American psychiatry / Justin Garson
    • Salvation through reductionism : the National Institute of Mental Health and the return to biological psychiatry / Brian P. Casey
    • Coda : technique, marginality, and history / Katja Guenther.
    ISBN
    • 9781580465953 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 1580465951 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2017011118
    OCLC
    974965322
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