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oapen-20.500.12657-504712023-07-05T12:36:19Z Brainwaves Borck, Cornelius History General and world history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger’s experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck's thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain. 2021-08-19T08:50:56Z 2021-08-19T08:50:56Z 2018 book ONIX_20210819_9781317172819_5 9781317172819 9781472469441 9781315569840 9780367881498 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50471 eng Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 application/pdf n/a 9781317172819.pdf Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9781315569840 10.4324/9781315569840 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Universität zu Lübeck 9781317172819 9781472469441 9781315569840 9780367881498 346 open access
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In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger’s experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck's thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain.
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