Literature, neurology, and neuroscience : historical and literary connections /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stiles, Anne, 1975- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Finger, Stanley (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Boller, François (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Elsevier, 2013.
• Έκδοση: First edition.
• Σειρά: Progress in brain research ; v. 205.
• Θέματα: Neurology > History.; Neurosciences > History.; Neurosciences and the humanities.; Neurology.; Neurosciences.; Medicine in Literature.; History of Medicine.; History, 18th Century.; History, 19th Century.; History, 20th Century.; Neurology > history.; Neurosciences > history.; Physicians.; Electronic books.; History.

This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have received surprisingly little attention in the past. Experts in t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1: Literature and neuroscientific discoveries. The overlooked literary path to modern electrophysiology: philosophical dialogues, novels, and travel books / Stanley Finger
• Oscar Wilde and the brain cell / Elisha Cohn
• Forgetting the madeleine: Proust and the neurosciences / Patrick M. Bray
• Optograms and criminology: science, news reporting, and fanciful novels / Douglas J. Lanska
• Part 2: Theories of brain and mind in literature. Phrenology and physiognomy in Victorian literature
• Rhonda Boshears, Harry Whitaker
• Neurological and psychological constructs in Sheridan Le Fanu's In a glass darkly / Sheryl R. Ginn
• Part 3: Making literary connections. Lord Byron's physician: John William Polidori on somnambulism / Stanley Finger, Anne Stiles
• Return of the living dead: re-reading Pierre Flourens' contributions to neurophysiology and literature / Sharman Levinson
• Peter Mark Roget: physician, scientist, systematist; his Thesaurus and his impact on 19th-Century neuroscience / Lawrence Kruger, Stanley Finger
• Bram Stoker's brother, the brain surgeon / Anne Stiles
• Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, and Isaac Pulvermacher's "magic band" / Robert K. Waits
• Alexander Forbes, Walter Cannon, and science-based literature / Justin Garson
• Part 4: Creativity and aesthetics. Neurology, poetry and the First World War of 1914-1918 / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
• Epilepsy in Dostoevsky / Ivan Iniesta
• Mindblindness: metaphor and neuroaesthetics in the works of Silas Weir Mitchell and Simon Baron-Cohen / Kristine Swenson
• Literary aesthetics: beauty, the brain, and Mrs. Dalloway / Patrick Colm Hogan.