Essays in the history of the physiological sciences : : proceedings of a network symposium of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health held at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, on March 26-27th, 1993 / / edited by Claude Debru.

• Superior document: The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Debru, Claude,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Rodopi,, [1995]; 1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The history of the physiological sciences remains an open field of investigation for scholars from different disciplines. A recent shift of interest towards physiology as the mother of many contemporary biomedical disciplines, has been observed on both scientific and historical levels. Due to its unique richness and variety of facts, interpretations, theoretical models, and moreover unanswered questions, physiology remains a matter of considerable, historical and epistemological interest. For scholars interested in the experimental as well as the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the physiological sciences in their broader sense, and concerned by their place within the national and international frameworks of biomedical research, forms of cooperation have been proposed within the networks of the European Association for the History of Medicine and health. The present volume is the first publication of this cooperation. In this volume definite disciplines like neurophysiology and endocrinology, and comparative international aspects are under scrutiny by well established scientists and scholars, physiologists, historians and philosophers. A strong emphasis is placed upon neuroscientific topics like brain localization, functional architecture, physiological mechanisms, behavioral and integrative aspects of the neurosciences, neurotransmission. Local research traditions, national differences and forms of international communication are also examined.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Foreword / Claude Debru -- List of authors / Claude Debru -- Brain Structure and Functions / Claude Debru -- Cent cinquante ans de faits, de théories et d'hypothèses sur l'intégration cérébrale: quelques exemples / Pierre Buser -- On the history of the ideas of efference copy and reafference / Otto-Joachim Grüsser -- Understanding the functional architecture of cortical tissue in the XIXth century / Olaf Breidbach -- Aspects of brain localization in late XIXth century Germany / Michael Hagner -- Mach and Hering's Physiology of Senses / Jan Janko -- Brain Physiology and Behaviour / Claude Debru -- Tradition, metaphors, anatomy of the brain: the physiology of insanity in the late XVIth and XVIIth centuries / Michael Kutzer -- Combien de corps y a-t-il dans le corps? Quelques remarques à propos de la neurophysiologie du siècle des Lumières / Alexandre Métraux -- Naissance et évolution du concept biologique de bisexualité / Claude Aron -- Endocrinology / Claude Debru -- La controverse entre Gley et Moussu sur la spécificité des fonctions de la thyroïde et des parathyroïdes / Christian Bange -- Sir Henry Dale and autopharmacology: the role of acetylcholine in neurotransmission / Tilli Tansey -- Henry Dale, scepticism, theory, luck, strategy and tactics / David Smith -- Physiology, Hygiene, and Medicine. National and International Aspects / Claude Debru -- La transformation chimio-physiologique de l'hygiène à la fin du XVIIIème siècle / Jacques Lambert -- Evolutionism and embryology in the Warsaw physician milieu in the years 1859-1939 / Krzysztof Grzegorz Jeziorski -- Physiology, periodicals, and national differences at the end of the 1860's / Christian Bonah -- Back Matter / Claude Debru.