This is a reissue of a book published by the Clarendon Press in 1970 with a new introduction to take account of recent developments in the history of nineteenth century neuroscience. The author examines the ideas of the nature and localization of the functions of the brain in the light of the philosophical constraints at work in the sciences of mind and brain in the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to phrenology, sensory-motor physiology, associationist psychology, and the theory of evolution as applied to the study of psychology. The author argues that the methods and assumptions of modern science achieved apparent success in this domain at the expense of the biological approach which justified the integration of formerly disparate traditions.
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Will be of much interest to neurologists, for the author. . . has written a meticulously documented history of thought upon the nature of cerebral localization from the eighteenth century. . . until late in the nineteenth century. (Brain )
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One of the best histories of neuroscience
15 Oct 2006
By P. A. Kalanithi
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Most histories of neuroscience tend to be mere recountings of events, not actual histories. This is not merely a timeline or an ordering of facts, but a philosophically sophisticated telling of how we have come to understand the mind and the brain. I trained as a historian of science at Cambridge, and I am on my way to becoming a neurosurgeon --- I wish I had written this book. If you want to understand today's mind-brain problem, this is the book that tells you how we got here. It is also the book that highlights that some of the central scientific directions are not necessarily great leaps forward, but may represent pendulum swings in a larger debate about behavior and the brain, specifically regarding whether the brain acts as circuits or is composed of discrete processing centers. It's a shame the author left history for psychoanalysis!
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