Author: Robert VerityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Changes Produced in the Nervous System by Civilization Considered According to the Evidence of Physiology and the Philosophy of History by Robert Verity
Author: Robert VerityChanges produced in the nervous system by civilization, considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history
Author: Robert VerityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Physiology)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization
Author: Robert VerityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
British and Foreign Medical Review
Author: Brain and Race
Author: Claudio PoglianoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004431888
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
For nearly two centuries, the racial significance of the human brain has absorbed a huge amount of scientific energy, despite the frequency of shortcomings and disappointing results. This book tries to show and explain the resilience of such a thorny issue.
Nervous Acts
Author: G. RousseauPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.
Neurology and Modernity
Author: Laura SalisburyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230278000
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.
The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science
Author: Racial Crossings
Author: Damon Ieremia SalesaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191619213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children, racially diverse communities or societies, these 'racial crossings' were a lasting Victorian concern. But in an era of imperial expansion, when slavery was abolished, colonial wars were fought, and Britain itself was reformed, these concerns were more than academic. In both the British empire and imperial Britain, racial crossings shaped what people thought about race, the future, the past, and the conduct and possibilities of empire. Victorian fears of miscegenation and degeneration are well known; this study turns to apparently opposite ideas where racial crossing was seen as a means of improvement, a way of creating new societies, or a mode for furthering the rule of law and the kingdom of Heaven. Salesa explores how and why the preoccupation with racial crossings came to be so important, so varied, and so widely shared through the writings and experiences of a raft of participants: from Victorian politicians and writers, to philanthropists and scientists, to those at the razor's edge of empire - from soldiers, missionaries, and settlers, to 'natives', 'half-castes' and other colonized people. Anchored in the striking history of colonial New Zealand, where the colonial policy of 'racial amalgamation' sought to incorporate and intermarry settlers and New Zealand Maori, Racial Crossings examines colonial encounters, working closely with indigenous ideas and experiences, to put Victorian racial practice and thought into sharp, critical, relief.
Brain, Mind and Medicine:
Author: Harry WhitakerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387709673
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine. This volume explores neuroscience and reviews developments in anatomy, physiology, and medicine in the era some call the Age of Reason, and others the Enlightenment. Topics include how neuroscience adopted electricity as the nerve force, how disorders such as aphasia and hysteria were treated, Mesmerism, and more.