Some contextual data helps us to grasp the full importance and scope of this undertaking. Ĭéline Cherici’s book explores the place of electricity in the history of medical science over a period ranging from the 18th to the 21st Centuries, from its discovery to the recent use of deep brain stimulation. Stimulation, control and improvement of moral and cognitive capacities. Disorders and Resurgences of Electrical Neurostimulation Therapies: From Heath to Deep Brain Stimulation. Brain electricity recordings and the electric alphabet. Stimulations on animal and human brains: localist perspectives. Electrophysiology: measuring and exploring from 1848 onwards 5.2.2. Exploration and recording of nervous system activities. Electricity: a diagnostic tool for mental illness?. Electrical therapies: emergencies and interventionism. Between Electrotherapy Rooms and Laboratories: Specializing Electricity. Understanding life: heuristic experiments. Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological. ![]() Physics, knowledge of laws and nature of electricity. The Birth of an Electrical Culture: From Frankenstein to Hyde. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020938719 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-78630-595-4įoreword. ![]() © ISTE Ltd 2020 The rights of Céline Cherici to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: ISTE Ltd 27-37 St George’s Road London SW19 4EU UK From Clouds to the Brain The Movement of Electricity in Medical Scienceįirst published 2020 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Īpart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA.
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