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  • Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers

    Literature, Humor, and Faddish Phrenology

    by Stanley Finger ...
    Having a phrenological 'head reading' was one of the most significant fads of the nineteenth century – a means for better knowing oneself and a guide for self-improvement. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) had a lifelong yet long overlooked interest in phrenology, the pseudoscience claiming to correlate skull features with specialized brain areas and higher mental traits. Twain's books are laced with ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Doctor Franklin's Medicine

    by Stanley Finger ...
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions—including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that extended the user's ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Doctor Franklin's Medicine

    by Stanley Finger ...
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions—including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that extended the user's ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Franz Joseph Gall

    Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain

    by Stanley Finger, Paul Eling ...
    Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience

    New Discoveries and Changing Landscapes

    by Stanley Finger, Dahlia W. Zaidel, Francois Boller, Julien Bogousslavsky ...
    Series Book 204 - Progress in Brain Research
    This volume on neuroscience, neurology, and the fine arts brings several disciplines together. It presents current thoughts and modern examples about how science, medicine and the arts have interacted in the past and are still converging. This volume specifically explores the history and modern perspective on neurology and neuroscience. - This volume explores the history and modern perspective on ... Read more

    $259.19 USD

  • The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience

    Neuro-Historical Dimensions

    by Stanley Finger, Dahlia W. Zaidel, Francois Boller, Julien Bogousslavsky ...
    Series Book 203 - Progress in Brain Research
    This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume explores the history and modern perspective on neurology and neuroscience. - This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising ... Read more

    $259.19 USD

  • Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

    by Stanley Finger, Francois Boller, Anne Stiles ...
    Series Book 206 - Progress in Brain Research
    This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have ... Read more

    $259.19 USD

  • Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement

    Insights and Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Eling, Stanley Finger ...
    During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Recovery from Brain Damage

    Research and Theory

    Edited by Stanley Finger ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    It has long been recognized that damage to the mammalian central nervous system may be followed by behavioral recovery, but only re cently has close attention been directed to specific factors which may enhance or retard restitution. This is evident in the rapidly growing number of journal articles and scientific paper sessions dealing with "recovery of function," as well as in the publicity given ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Brain Injury and Recovery

    Theoretical and Controversial Issues

    Edited by C. Robert Almli, Stanley Finger, T.E. LeVere, Donald G. Stein ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The idea for the present volume grew from discussions that the four of us had among ourselves and with our colleagues at recent scientific meetings. All of us were impressed by the wealth of empirical data that was being generated by investigators interested in brain damage and recovery from both behavioral and biological orientations. Nevertheless, we were concerned about the relative paucity of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Trepanation

    Edited by Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, Chris Smith ...
    Series series Studies on Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition
    This volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago. ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives

    by Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, Francois Boller ...
    Series Book 216 - Progress in Brain Research
    Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity, and the healing power of music in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In this context, the disorders that plagued ... Read more

    $259.19 USD