Exploring the history of neuropsychology [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers / / Arthur Benton ; with an introduction by Kenneth M. Adams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782345403321
• Autore: Benton Arthur Lester <1909->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1-280-83467-6; 9786610834679; 0-19-803157-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8
• Soggetti: Aphasia - History; Clinical neuropsychology - History; Neuropsychology - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Neuropsychology: Past, Present, and Future (1988); 2. Four Neuropsychologists (1994); 3. The Fate of Some Neuropsychological Concepts: An Historical Inquiry (1990); 4. The Prefrontal Region: Its Early History (1991); 5. Cerebrovascular Disease in the History of Clinical Neuropsychology (1991); 6. Spatial Thinking in Neurological Patients: Historical Aspects (1982); 7. Early Descriptions of Aphasia (1960); 8. Aphasia (1800-1860) (1963); 9. The Memoir of Marc Dax on Aphasia (1964); 10. Johann A. P. Gesner on Aphasia (1965); 11. Bergson and Freud on Aphasia: A Comparison (1987)12. Pitres and Amnesic Aphasia (1988); 13. The Interplay of Experimental and Clinical Approaches in Brain Lesion Research (1978); 14. Basic Approaches to Neuropsychological Assessment (1991); 15. The Amusias (1977); 16. Clinical Neuropsychology: 1960-1990 (1992); 17. The ""Minor"" Hemisphere (1972); 18. Hemispheric Cerebral Dominance Before Broca (1984); 19. The Hécaen-Zangwill Legacy: Hemispheric Dominance Examined (1991); 20. Dyslexia: Evolution of a Concept (1980); 21. Developmental Neuropsychology: Its Present Status (1992); Index; A; B; CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Features essays which cover diverse aspects of the evolution of thought and practice in neuropsychology and behavioral neurology. This book places emphasis on the interplay of experimental and clinical approaches in advancing understanding of brain-behavior relationships. It is intended for neuroscientists.

Icons of life : a cultural history of human embryos / / Lynn M. Morgan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780435403321
• Autore: Morgan Lynn Marie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-35992-4; 9786612359927; 0-520-94472-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 612.6/4
• Soggetti: Embryology, Human - Social aspects; Tissue culture - Social aspects; Human reproductive technology - Social aspects; Medical anthropology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-297) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. A Skeleton in the Closet and Fetuses in the Basement -- 2. Embryo Visions -- 3. Building a Collection -- 4. Inside the Embryo Production Factory -- 5. Traffic in "Embryo Babies" -- 6. Embryo Tales -- 7. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life -- 8. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in ; today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all the way to China-most people had no idea what human embryos looked like. But by the 1950's, modern citizens saw in embryos an image of "ourselves unborn," and embryology had developed a biologically based story about how we came to be. Morgan explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's medical career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project, Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean.