Edwin Clarke and L.S. Jacyna
Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts
$26.95, £15.95 paperback
978-0-520-07879-6
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June 1992, Available worldwide
Categories: Health & Medicine; History of Science; Neuroscience; Ethics
June 1992, Available worldwide
Categories: Health & Medicine; History of Science; Neuroscience; Ethics
"A fine introduction to some of the untested, and untestable, ideas that sustain the nervous system as one of the monumental creations of modern culture."—Christopher Lawrence, Times Higher Education Supplement
"This work is so brilliant that it will not be done better for a long time."—Paul Cranefield, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"Clarke and Jacyna provide the social, political and philosophical background of 19th century neuroscience that is so crucial to understanding it."—Charles C. Gross, Quarterly Review of Biology
"This work is so brilliant that it will not be done better for a long time."—Paul Cranefield, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"Clarke and Jacyna provide the social, political and philosophical background of 19th century neuroscience that is so crucial to understanding it."—Charles C. Gross, Quarterly Review of Biology
This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.