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Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography (Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945) - Hardcover

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Borck, Cornelius

 
9781472469441: Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography (Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1472469445 ISBN 13: 9781472469441
Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger's experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck's thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cornelius Borck is Professor of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine and Science and Director of the Institute of History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Luebeck, Germany.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1472469445
ISBN 13 
9781472469441
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
346
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