Title:
From clouds to the brain : the movement of electricity in medical science
Author:
Cherici, Céline.
ISBN:
9781119779520
9781119779513
Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Series:
Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series
Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series.
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Birth of an Electrical Culture: From Frankenstein to Hyde -- 1.1. "Re"creating life? -- 1.2. Changing and regulating behavior -- 1.3. Possible electrical profiling? -- Chapter 2 From Physics to Electrifying Physicists -- 2.1. Physics, knowledge of laws and nature of electricity -- 2.2. Medical physics: philosophical issues -- 2.3. Healing machines? -- Chapter 3 Controversial Electricity Applications -- 3.1. Paralysis -- 3.2. Nervous disorders
3.3. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological -- Chapter 4 Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology -- 4.1. Understanding life: heuristic experiments -- 4.2. Medical galvanism -- 4.3. Electrocentric life -- Chapter 5 Between Electrotherapy Rooms and Laboratories: Specializing Electricity -- 5.1. Electrical therapies: emergencies and interventionism -- 5.1.1. Deceptive diseases -- 5.1.2. When treatment depends on techniques -- 5.1.3. Electricity: a diagnostic tool for mental illness? -- 5.2. Exploration and recording of nervous system activities
5.2.1. Electrophysiology: measuring and exploring from 1848 onwards -- 5.2.2. Stimulations on animal and human brains: localist perspectives -- 5.2.3. Brain electricity recordings and the electric alphabet -- Chapter 6 Disorders and Resurgences of Electrical Neurostimulation Therapies: From Heath to Deep Brain Stimulation -- 6.1. Stimulation, control and improvement of moral and cognitive capacities -- 6.2. Deep brain stimulation and psychiatry -- 6.3. Man, brain and machine -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Historical Points of Reference -- Appendix 2 Comparison of Tables of Contents -- References
Abstract:
Based on research on the links between deep brain stimulation and its applications in the field of psychiatry, the history of techniques is of great importance in this book in order to understand the scope of the fields of application of electricity in brain sciences. The concepts of brain electricity, stimulation, measurement and therapy are further developed to identify lines of convergence, ruptures and conceptual perspectives for a materialistic understanding of human nature that emerged during the 18th century. In an epistemological posture, at the crossroads of the concepts of epistemes, as stated by Foucault, and phenomenotechnics, as conceived by Bachelard, the analyses focus on the technical content of the theories while inscribing them in the language and specificities of each era.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Genre:
Electronic Access:
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