From clouds to the brain: the movement of electricity in medical science
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Beteilige Person: Cherici, Céline 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ISTE, Ltd 2020
Hoboken Wiley 2020
Schriftenreihe:Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series
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Abstract:Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 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? -- Chapter 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? -- Chapter 3 Controversial Electricity Applications -- 3.1. Paralysis -- 3.2. Nervous disorders
3.3. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological -- Chapter 4 Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology -- 4.1. Understanding life: heuristic experiments -- 4.2. Medical galvanism -- 4.3. Electrocentric life -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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
Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record
Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (319 Seiten)
ISBN:9781119779520
DOI:10.1002/9781119779520