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Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography - A Cultural History of Electroencephalography (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,220
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Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography - A Cultural History of Electroencephalography (Hardcover): Cornelius...

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography - A Cultural History of Electroencephalography (Hardcover)

Cornelius Borck; Translated by Ann Hentschel

Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
Release date: 2018
Authors: Cornelius Borck
Translators: Ann Hentschel
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-6944-1
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-4724-6944-5
Barcode: 9781472469441

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