Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts

by Edwin Clarke (Author), L. S. Jacyna (Author)
June 1992
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Rights: Available worldwide
Pages: 604
ISBN: 9780520078796
Trim Size: 6 x 9

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About the Book

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.

About the Author

Edwin Clarke is Director-Emeritus of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. L.S. Jacyna is a research fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Preface

1 Introduction
2 The cerebrospinal axis
3 The nerve cell
4 The reflex
5 Nerve function
6 Brain functions
7 The vegetative nervous system

Notes
Bibliographical Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index