Download or read book Charles Edouard Brown S quard written by Louis-Cyril Celestin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.

Download or read book Charles Edouard Brown Sequard written by Louis-Cyril Celestin and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brown Sequard written by Michael J. Aminoff, MD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the strange career of Brown-Sequard, an eccentric, restless, nineteenth-century physician-scientist whose life was characterized by dramatic reversals of fortune and is said to have been "one of the greatest discovers of facts that the world has ever seen".

Download or read book Brown S quard written by Michael Jeffrey Aminoff and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard's life which appraises his scientific legacy and gives a vivid account of his rich imagination, his creative approach to research, and his innovative methods of investigation."

Download or read book Lectures on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Principal Forms of Paralysis of the Lower Extremities written by Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Works of Brown S quard written by Marcellin Berthelot and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Elixir of Life written by Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Truth at any cost, even my own,' has always been the uncompromising motto of the true philosopher . . . The pains to which Dr. Brown-Séquard has voluntarily subjected himself in pursuing the experiments which form the subject of this book should not be forgotten . . ." (Newell Dunbar, 1896)The eminent physician Dr. Brown-Séquard was not afraid of putting his body on the line for the good of science. His extreme self-experimentation included the swallowing of sponges attached to string, which he would later pull out to inspect what had been soaked up. This book, however, is dedicated to one of his experiments that stands out above all others - Injecting the minced testicles of animals as a means of rejuvenation. In the late 19th Century, Séquard's concoction had become the world famous 'elixir of life' and was being administered by tens of thousands of physicians.Following a short biography of Séquard's life achievements, this book comprises a collection of reports on his experiments with minced testicles. Anyone with an interest in bizarre and historic science will enjoy this unique and surreal journey of discovery into which animal testicles are best injected, how much water should be added to the mixture, filtered vs. unfiltered, and whether or not a drop of cocaine may help to reduce the soreness? This latest addition also includes a chapter on how Séquard's testicle juice led to even more outrageous medical practice 30 years later, with the implantation of entire animal testicles.

Download or read book Suspensions of Perception written by Jonathan Crary and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters—Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne—who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.

Download or read book Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System written by Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Elixir of Life written by Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Elixir of Life Dr Brown S guard s Own Account of His Famous Alleged Remedy for Debility and Old Age Dr Variot s Experiments to Which Is Pr written by Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin written by Eugene Taylor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, William James was America's most widely read philosopher. In addition to being one of the founders of pragmatism, however, he was also a leading psychologist and author of the seminal work, The Principles of Psychology (1890). While scholars argue that James withdrew from the study of psychology after 1890, Eugene Taylor demonstrates convincingly that James remained preeminently a psychologist until his death in 1910. Taylor details James's contributions to experimental psychopathology, psychical research, and the psychology of religion. Moreover, Taylor's work shows that out of his scientific study of consciousness, James formulated a sophisticated metaphysics of radical empiricism. In light of historical developments in psychology, as well as the current philosophic implications of the neuroscience revolution related to the biology of consciousness, Taylor argues that both the subject matter of James's investigations and his metaphysics of radical empiricism are just as important for psychology today as James believed they were in his own time. This book represents a major new contribution both to James scholarship and to the history of American psychology. Although philosophers have analyzed radical empiricism, this book is the first to trace the development of radical empiricism as a metaphysics addressed to psychologists. It is also the first to show James's involvement in depth-psychology and psychotherapeutics and to trace historical continuity between James's work on consciousness and subsequent developments in psychoanalysis, personality theory, and humanistic psychology.

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Download or read book Darwinism Comes to America written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Numbers gets to the heart of American resistance to Darwin's ideas. He provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.

Download or read book Reflections on the Principles of Psychology written by Michael G. Johnson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume looks back to 1890 and -- 100 years later -- asks some of the same questions William James was asking in his Principles of Psychology. In so doing, it reviews our progress toward their solutions. Among the contemporary concerns of 1990 that the editors consider are: the nature of the self and the will, conscious experience, associationism, the basic acts of cognition, and the nature of perception. Their findings: Although the developments in each of these areas during the last 100 years have been monumental, James' views as presented in the Principles still remain viable and provocative. To provide a context for understanding James, some chapters are devoted primarily to recent scholarship about James himself -- focusing on the time the Principles was written, relevant intellectual influences, and considerations of his understanding of this "new" science of psychology. The balance of this volume is devoted to specific topics of particular interest to James. One critical theme woven into almost every chapter is the tension between the role of experience (or phenomenological data) within a scientific psychology, and the viability of a materialistic (or biologically reductive) account of mental life. Written for professionals, practitioners, and students of psychology -- in all disciplines.

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Theories of Art written by Joshua C. Taylor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. It is significant that during the nineteenth century most artists felt compelled to found their artistic practice on a consciously established premise.

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