Format:
xxviii, 570 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780773559325
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society 52
Content:
"In recent decades, developments in research technologies and therapeutic advances have generated immense public recognition for neuroscience. However, its origins as a field, often linked to partnerships and projects at various brain-focused research centres in the United States during the 1960s, can be traced much further back in time. In A New Field in Mind Frank W. Stahnisch documents and analyzes the antecedents of the modern neurosciences as an interdisciplinary field. Although postwar American research centres, such as Francis O. Schmitt's Neuroscience Research Program at MIT, brought the modern field to prominence, Stahnisch reveals the pioneering collaborations in the early brain sciences at centres in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in the first half of the twentieth century. One of these, Heinrich Obersteiner's institute in Vienna, began its work in the 1880s. Through case studies and collective biographies, Stahnisch investigates the evolving relationships between disciplines--anatomy, neurology, psychiatry, physiology, serology, and neurosurgery--which created new epistemological and social contexts for brain research. He also shows how changing political conditions in Central Europe impacted the development of the neurosciences, ultimately leading to the expulsion of many physicians and researchers under the Nazi regime and their migration to North America. An in-depth and innovative study, A New Field in Mind tracks the emergence and evolution of neuroscientific research from the late nineteenth century to the postwar period."
Note:
Introduction -- The Disciplinary Makeup of Clinical and Basic Research in Imperial Germany: The Case Examples of Strasburg and Leipzig -- Shortfalls of Individualized Research, the Emergence of Clinical Neurology, and the Demands of Modern Life, 1910s to 1930s: Frankfurt am Main and Berlin -- War, Trauma, Regeneration: External Influences and Cultural Nervousness Considered in Neuromorphological Research -- The Later Weimar Period: Political Conflicts, the Rise of Eugenic Concepts, and International Influences on Interdisciplinary Work in German Neuroscience -- The Machtergreifung of the National Socialists and Its Effects on the German-Speaking Neurosciences: Marginalization -- Oppression -- Forced Migration -- On Cultural and Professional Contexts of Theory-Change inthe Neurosciences Due to the Forced Migration Wave since 1933: Germany/Austria -- United States/Canada -- "They Called Me an American Monkey Psychiatrist": Reanimating German-American Biomedical Research in the Early Postwar Period -- Conclusion. The Development of Interdisciplinary Work in the Neurosciences: Subject Constraints, Social Necessities, and the Development of Research Networks
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePDF ISBN 978-0-228-00050-1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub ISBN 978-0-228-00051-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Neurowissenschaften
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Geschichte 1910-1960
Author information:
Stahnisch, Frank W. 1968-
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