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