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Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts / Edition 1

Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts / Edition 1

Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
0520078799
ISBN-13:
9780520078796
Pub. Date:
06/08/1992
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520078799
ISBN-13:
9780520078796
Pub. Date:
06/08/1992
Publisher:
University of California Press
Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts / Edition 1

Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts / Edition 1

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520078796
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 06/08/1992
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 604
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.60(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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
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