LEADER 03271oam 2200517 450 001 9910494573903321 005 20210710185940.0 010 $a90-04-33298-7 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004332980 035 $a(CKB)3710000000776005 035 $a(OCoLC)62343703 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004332980 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6481524 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000776005 100 $a20210710d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aIrritating experiments $eHaller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90 /$fHubert Steinke 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aNew York, New York :$cRodopi,$d[2005] 210 4$d©2005 215 $a1 online resource (354 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aWellcome series in the history of medicine 225 1 $aClio medica,$x0045-7183 ;$v76 311 $a90-420-1852-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theories of Animal Motion before 1750 -- Experimentation in the Göttingen Laboratory -- Haller?s Changing Views on Irritability and Sensibility -- The Uses of Experiment -- Irritability, Sensibility, and Medical Philosophy -- The Debate and the Medical and Public Sphere -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Spread of Experiment -- Index. 330 $aOne of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller?s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). Irritating Experiments is the first full-length study to explore the theoretical background and the experimental process that led to Haller's description and separation of two fundamental bodily qualities: irritability, or the capacity of muscles to contract upon stimulation, and sensibility, or the capacity of the nervous system to transmit impressions that are felt as touch or pain in humans, or produce signs of pain in animals. This new concept presented a serious challenge to the reigning medical systems. Haller?s animal experiments were repeated all over Europe, on a scale never seen before. The results, however, were contradictory. Haller's concept was largely rejected, and animal experimentation could not be established as a major research method in physiology. Focussing on procedural aspects of experimentation, the interaction between experiment and theory, the status of surgery, the use of medical and pathological models, and the culture of criticism, Irritating Experiments tries to explain why. 410 0$aClio Medica$v76. 606 $aIrritability 606 $aPhysiology$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSenses and sensation 615 0$aIrritability. 615 0$aPhysiology$xHistory 615 0$aSenses and sensation. 676 $a571.09409033 700 $aSteinke$b Hubert$01037849 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494573903321 996 $aIrritating experiments$92828121 997 $aUNINA