Essays in the History of the Physiological Sciences

Proceedings of a network symposium of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health held at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, on March 26-27th, 1993

Claude Debru (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1995
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-5183-646-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The history of the physiological sciences remains an open field of investigation for scholars from different disciplines. A recent shift of interest towards physiology as the mother of many contemporary biomedical disciplines, has been observed on both scientific and historical levels. Due to its unique richness and variety of facts, interpretations, theoretical models, and moreover unanswered questions, physiology remains a matter of considerable, historical and epistemological interest.

For scholars interested in the experimental as well as the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the physiological sciences in their broader sense, and concerned by their place within the national and international frameworks of biomedical research, forms of cooperation have been proposed within the networks of the European Association for the History of Medicine and health. The present volume is the first publication of this cooperation.

In this volume definite disciplines like neurophysiology and endocrinology, and comparative international aspects are under scrutiny by well established scientists and scholars, physiologists, historians and philosophers. A strong emphasis is placed upon neuroscientific topics like brain localization, functional architecture, physiological mechanisms, behavioral and integrative aspects of the neurosciences, neurotransmission. Local research traditions, national differences and forms of international communication are also examined.

Inhalt

Claude DEBRU: Foreword. List of authors. I. BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS. Pierre BUSER: Cent cinquante ans de faits, de théories et d'hypothèses sur l'intégration cérébrale: quelques exemples. Otto Joachim GRÜSSER: On the history of the ideas of efference copy and reafference. Olaf BREIDBACH: Understanding the functional architecture of cortical tissue in the XIXth century. Michael HAGNER: Aspects of brain localization in late XIXth century Germany. Jan JANKO: Mach and Hering's Physiology of Senses. II. BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR. Michael KUTZER: Tradition, metaphors, anatomy of the brain: the physiology of insanity in the late XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Alexandre MÉTRAUX: Combien de corps y a-t-il dans le corps? Quelques remarques à propos de la neurophysiologie du siècle des Lumières. Claude ARON: Naissance et évolution du concept biologique de bisexualité. III. ENDOCRINOLOGY. Christian BANGE: La controverse entre Gley et Moussu sur la spécificité des fonctions de la thyroïde et des parathyroïdes. Tilli TANSEY: Sir Henry Dale and autopharmacology: the role of acetylcholine in neurotransmission. David SMITH: Henry Dale, scepticism, theory, luck, strategy and tactics. IV. PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE, AND MEDICINE. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS. Jacques LAMBERT: La transformation chimio-physiologique de l'hygiène à la fin du XVIIIème siècle. Krzysztof JEZIORSKI: Evolutionism and embryology in the Warsaw physician milieu in the years 1859-1939. Christian BONAH: Physiology, periodicals, and national differences at the end of the 1860's.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1995
• Reihe/Serie: Clio Medica ; 33
• Verlagsort: Leiden
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 225 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• ISBN-10: 90-5183-646-5 / 9051836465
• ISBN-13: 978-90-5183-646-2 / 9789051836462
• Zustand: Neuware