| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 76 |
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Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 76.
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| File Type |
Electronic book available in PDF. |
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Access restricted by licensing agreement. |
| Form |
Also available in print. |
| System Details |
System requirements: world wide web browser, Internet connection, realPage viewer or Adobe Acrobat reader. |
| Summary |
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 background and the experimental process that led to Haller's description and separation of two fundamental bodily qualities: irritability, or the capacity of muscles to contract upon stimulation, and sensibility, or the capacity of the nervous system to transmit impressions that are felt as touch or pain in humans, or produce signs of pain in animals. This new concept presented a serious challenge to the reigning medical systems. Haller's animal experiments were repeated all over Europe, on a scale never seen before. The results, however, were contradictory. Haller's concept was largely rejected, and animal experimentation could not be established as a major research method in physiology. Focussing on procedural aspects of experimentation, the interaction between experiment and theory, the status of surgery, the use of medical and pathological models, and the culture of criticism, Irritating Experiments tries to explain why. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: world wide web. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-337) and index. |
| Issued By |
Digitized and made available on the world wide web by Ingenta. |
| Subject |
Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777.
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Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777. (OCoLC)fst00005872
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Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777. (DE-588)118545140
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Irritability.
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Senses and sensation.
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Physiology -- History -- 18th century.
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Physiology -- history.
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Animal Experimentation -- history.
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History, 18th Century.
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Muscle Contraction -- physiology.
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Sensation -- physiology.
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Europe.
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Irritability. (OCoLC)fst00979693
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Physiology. (OCoLC)fst01063177
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Senses and sensation. (OCoLC)fst01112562
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Haller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90 |
| ISBN |
9042018526 (print) |
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9789042018525 (print) |
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