From Clouds to the Brain: The Movement of Electricity in Medical Science

ISBN-13: 9781786305954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 352 str.

Celine Cherici

Spis treści

Foreword viiIntroduction xiiiChapter 1. The Birth of an Electrical Culture: From Frankenstein to Hyde 11.1. "Re"creating life? 21.2. Changing and regulating behavior 311.3. Possible electrical profiling? 45Chapter 2. From Physics to Electrifying Physicists 492.1. Physics, knowledge of laws and nature of electricity 502.2. Medical physics: philosophical issues 652.3. Healing machines? 80Chapter 3. Controversial Electricity Applications 913.1. Paralysis 923.2. Nervous disorders 1003.3. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological 115Chapter 4. Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology 1254.1. Understanding life: heuristic experiments 1254.2. Medical galvanism 1434.3. Electrocentric life 154Chapter 5. Between Electrotherapy Rooms and Laboratories: Specializing Electricity 1695.1. Electrical therapies: emergencies and interventionism 1705.1.1. Deceptive diseases 1715.1.2. When treatment depends on techniques 1805.1.3. Electricity: a diagnostic tool for mental illness? 1975.2. Exploration and recording of nervous system activities 2035.2.1. Electrophysiology: measuring and exploring from 1848 onwards 2035.2.2. Stimulations on animal and human brains: localist perspectives 2135.2.3. Brain electricity recordings and the electric alphabet 228Chapter 6. Disorders and Resurgences of Electrical Neurostimulation Therapies: From Heath to Deep Brain Stimulation 2396.1. Stimulation, control and improvement of moral and cognitive capacities 2416.2. Deep brain stimulation and psychiatry 2516.3. Man, brain and machine 265Conclusion 271Appendix 1 275Appendix 2 281References 289Index of Names 325Index of Terms 331

O autorze

Celine Cherici: Maitre de conference of epistemology and History of medical science, University Picardie Jules Verne, Department of philosophy.