Irritating experiments : Haller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90

Irritating experiments Haller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90

One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller’s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). Irritating Experiments is the first full-length study to explore the theoretical bac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Steinke, Hubert, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Brill 2005
[2005]
Colección:Clio Medica 76.
Materias:
Irritability.
Physiology > History > 18th century.
Senses and sensation.
Medicine
History of medicine
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009502142506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Theories of Animal Motion before 1750
  • Experimentation in the Göttingen Laboratory
  • Haller’s Changing Views on Irritability and Sensibility
  • The Uses of Experiment
  • Irritability, Sensibility, and Medical Philosophy
  • The Debate and the Medical and Public Sphere
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • The Spread of Experiment
  • Index.

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