Minds Behind the Brain: A history of the pioneers and their discoveries

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  • Author : Stanley Finger
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780195181821
  • ISBN : 0195181824
  • Label : OUP USA
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : OUP USA
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 378
  • Package Dimensions : 0.90 inches (Height) x 10.00 inches (Length) x 1.40 pounds (Weight) x 7.00 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2005-03-03
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • SKU : 519617
  • Studio : OUP USA

Illustrated with over a hundred halftones and drawings, this volume presents a series of profiles that trace the evolution of our knowledge about the brain. Beginning with the ancient Egyptian study of 'the marrow of the skull,' it takes us on a journey from the classical world of Hippocrates to modern researchers such as Sperry.

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With neuroscience steadily replacing psychology, philosophy, and even religion as a model of self-understanding, it's time we take a look back at the history and meaning of this curious branch of research. Historian Stanley Finger charms and invigorates the reader with Minds Behind the Brain, a look at thousands of years of brain science in the form of biographical sketches. Nineteen great scientists whose brilliant insights, determined work, and resistance to cultural expectations brought this three-pound, lumpy beige ball increasing respect--from the ancient Egyptians discarding it upon death to our own view of it as the seat of consciousness. Ramon y Cajal, Sperry, Galen, and Descartes are among the researchers Finger chose to illuminate. Their peers, colleagues, and times are also portrayed vividly; the unavailability of human corpses for dissection until very recently, the still-raging debate on vivisection and animal research, and religious resistance to certain findings have all worked against these men and women. Well-chosen illustrations help humanise these figures, as does the author's careful balance between depictions of research and personal lives. How did Descarte's dog figure in the philosopher's understanding of the soul? Find out in Minds Behind the Brain. --Rob Lightner

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