Title: An illustrated history of brain function
Authors: Clarke, Edwin.; Dewhurst, Kenneth,; Dewhurst, Kenneth,
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1972
Subjects: Anatomy history; Brain physiology; Brain.; Brain Localization of functions; Human anatomy History; Medical Illustration history; Neurophysiology history
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Antiquity -- Medieval Period: The Cell Doctrine of Brain Function -- Transition: The Ventricles -- Transition: the Rete Mirabile -- Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century -- Anatomists and the Cerebral Convolutions -- Seventeenth Century Concepts of Brain Function: Descartes and Willis -- Seventeenth Century Oriental Concepts of Brain Function -- Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Illustrations of Cerebral Convolutions -- The New 'Science': Phrenology -- The Scientific Investigation of the Cerebral Convolutions in the Nineteenth Century -- The Genesis of Cortical Localization --Modern Aspects of Cortical Localization -- Appendix I. The Frontispiece -- Appendix II. Secondary Literature on the History of Brain Localization -- Acknowledgements -- Index.