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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Whitaker, Harry (Editor), Smith, C. U. M. (Editor), Finger, Stanley (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; History.; Neurosciences.; Medicine > History.; Biomedicine.; History of Science.; History of Medicine.

Ideas we associate with the 18th century are clearly seen in work published from the latter decades of the 17th century through the first decades of the 19th century. This is the "long 18th century", a period which exhibits multiple discourses in medicine, brain science and philosophy. The...