Brainwaves a cultural history of electroencephalography /
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 expect...
| Uniform Title: | Hirnströme. English |
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| Main Author: | Borck, Cornelius, |
| Other Authors: | Hentschel, Ann, |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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London ; New York :
Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group,
2018.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xii, 333 pages)). |
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Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
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| Summary: |
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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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-318) and index. Introduction -- brain waves then and now -- Electrifying brain images -- Hans Berger's long path to the EEG -- Electrotechniques of the live mind -- Terra nova : contexts of electroencephalographic explorations -- Set to and survey much! -- Designing, tinkering, thinking. 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. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xii, 333 pages)). |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-318) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781315569840 1315569841 9781317172802 1317172809 9781317172819 1317172817 9781317172796 1317172795 9780367881498 0367881497 |