Article ID: CBB001321208

History and Neurosciece: An Interactive Legacy (2014)

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Casper, Stephen T. (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 105
Pages: 123--132


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of a focus section on “Neurohistory and History of Science”
Language: English

The attitudes that characterize the contemporary neuro-turn were strikingly commonplace as part of the self-fashioning of social identity in the biographies and personal papers of past neurologists and neuroscientists. Indeed, one fundamental connection between nineteenth- and twentieth-century neurology and contemporary neuroscience appears to be the value that workers in both domains attach to the idea of integration, a vision of neural science and medicine that connected reductionist science to broader inquiries about the mind, brain, and human nature and in so doing supposedly resolved once and for all questions germane to the human sciences, humanities, and arts. How those attitudes were produced and reproduced first in neurology and then in neuroscience; in what way they were constructed and disciplined, thereby eventuating in the contested sciences and medicines of the mind, brain, and nervous system; and even how they garnered ever-wider contemporary purchase in cultures and societies are thus fascinating problems for historians of science and medicine. Such problems shed light on ethics, practices, controversies, and the uneasy social relations within those scientific and medical domains. But more to the point of this essay: they also account for the apparent epistemological weight now accorded the neuro in our contemporary moment. They thus illuminate in a rather different way why historians have suddenly discovered the value of the neuro.

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Authors & Contributors
Siegfried Weichlein
Antonella Tramacere
Shorvon, Simon
Modern, John Lardas
Rossor, Martin
Zoe M. Adams
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain
Neurology
Mind and body
Medicine and science, relationships
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Manitoba (Canada)
London (England)
United States
Switzerland
Poland
Institutions
Queen Square, London
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
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