Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 560
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ISBN-10 : 9781317172802
ISBN-13 : 1317172809
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Book Synopsis Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography by : Cornelius Borck

Download or read book Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography written by Cornelius Borck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger’s experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck's thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain.


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