Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century / Anne Stiles.

"In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by...

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Main Author: Stiles, Anne, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 78.
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