Brain, Mind and Medicine:: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience

Ideas we associate with the 18^th century are clearly seen in work published from the latter decades of the 17^th century through the first decades of the 19^th century. This is the "long 18^th century", a period which exhibits multiple discourses in medicine, brain science and philosophy. The editors have deliberately adopted a "presentist" subtitle, "neuroscience", to emphasize that this collection of essays reflect a range of current thought about 18^th century-studies of the nervous system i...