The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
Author: Roger Cooter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1984
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521227438

This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.

Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts

Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts
Author: Edwin Clarke
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1987
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780520078796

This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.