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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Animal spirit doctrine and the origins of neurophysiology. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011037109 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C U M Smith; Oxford University Press. |
ISBN: | 0199950261 9780199950263 |
OCLC Number: | 1062934568 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Section 1: The Doctrine Introduced ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Chapter 1: Psyche and soma ; Chapter 2: Alexandria and Hellenistic psychophysiology ; Section 2: The Doctrine Established ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Chapter 3: Biblical anima-spirit ; Chapter 4: The Islamic Ascendancy ; Chapter 5: Animal spirit in an age of Faith ; Section 3: The Doctrine Questioned ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Chapter 6: Descartes ; Chapter 7: Experiment and observation ; Chapter 8: Theory and argument ; Section 4: The Doctrine in Retreat ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Chapter 9: Vibrations and subtle fluids ; Chapter 10: Animal spirit in action ; Chapter 11: Non-spiritual physiology I: <"Physic>" rather than <"Psychic <" Functions ; Chapter 12 Non-spiritual physiology II: Irritable fibers ; Section 5: The Doctrine Discarded ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Chapter 13: The increasingly electrical world ; Chapter 14: Electric fishes and the path to animal electricity ; Chapter 15: From Fish to Frogs and nerve Electricity ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index |
Other Titles: | Animal spirit doctrine and the origins of neurophysiology (Online) |
Responsibility: | C.U.M. Smith [and others]. |
Abstract:
For millennia, the activity of the nervous system was believed to be due to indwelling animal spirit. This book describes the rise, development, apex, and slow decline of this idea, and its replacement by physicochemical theories of nerve conduction. It is a history of physiology and of the origins of neuroscience.
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