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REGIONS OF THE MIND
BRAIN RESEARCH AND THE QUEST FOR SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY |
| By: |
Susan Leigh Star |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£36.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804716730 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804716734 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1989 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
What is the relationship between scientific work and scientific theories? Are facts discovered or constructed? This book aims to answer these questions in a novel manner. |
| Synopsis: |
What is the relationship between scientific work and scientific theories? Are facts discovered or constructed? This book answers these questions in a novel manner. Early in the 1870s, and handful of London medical researchers - surgeons, pathologists, physiologists, and neurologists - envisioned a map of the brain that would match specific parts of the brain with unique, discrete functions (such as speech). They believed that such a map would solve an array of medical puzzles, including the cause and physical basis of epilepsy, aphasia, brain tumors, stroke, syphilis, and tuberculosis. These researchers were also bidding to answer the hotly debated questions on the nature of the relationship between brain and mind and the possibility of a biological explanation for complex human behaviours. Between 1870 and 1906, the 'localization' researchers encountered constant uncertainties in their work, most of which were scientific community ridiculed their efforts as neophrenology, notably those who upheld the rival diffusionist theory of the brain, which held that the brain works as an interactive whole. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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