Irritating experiments : : Haller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90 /

Irritating experiments : : Haller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90 / / Hubert Steinke.

One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller’s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). Irritating Experiments is the first full-length study to explore the theoretical bac...

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Superior document:Wellcome series in the history of medicine
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Steinke, Hubert,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Clio Medica 76.
Physical Description:1 online resource (354 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Theories of Animal Motion before 1750
  • Experimentation in the Göttingen Laboratory
  • Haller’s Changing Views on Irritability and Sensibility
  • The Uses of Experiment
  • Irritability, Sensibility, and Medical Philosophy
  • The Debate and the Medical and Public Sphere
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • The Spread of Experiment
  • Index.

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