Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Foreword
6 1 The Birth of an Electrical Culture: From Frankenstein to Hyde 1.1. “Re”creating life? 1.2. Changing and regulating behavior 1.3. Possible electrical profiling?
7 2 From Physics to Electrifying Physicists 2.1. Physics, knowledge of laws and nature of electricity 2.2. Medical physics: philosophical issues 2.3. Healing machines?
8 3 Controversial Electricity Applications 3.1. Paralysis 3.2. Nervous disorders 3.3. Electricity: between the normal and the pathological
9 4 Animal Electricity: Between Medicine and Physiology 4.1. Understanding life: heuristic experiments 4.2. Medical galvanism 4.3. Electrocentric life
10 5 Between Electrotherapy Rooms and Laboratories: Specializing Electricity 5.1. Electrical therapies: emergencies and interventionism 5.2. Exploration and recording of nervous system activities
11 6 Disorders and Resurgences of Electrical Neurostimulation Therapies: From Heath to Deep Brain Stimulation 6.1. Stimulation, control and improvement of moral and cognitive capacities 6.2. Deep brain stimulation and psychiatry 6.3. Man, brain and machine
12 Conclusion
13 Appendix 1
14 Appendix 2
15 References
List of Tables
1 Appendix 1Table A1.1. The five periods that mark the path from electricity to brain scienc...Table A1.2. 18th–19th Centuries – chronological points of reference: when physic...Table A1.3. Some dates in the context of brain control and the modulation of men...Table A1.4. Expanded history of deep brain stimulation
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1. In 1730, Gray experimented with the “flying boy”, putting the human ...Figure 1.2. Aldini tests the muscular reactions of a human head and then of the ...Figure 1.3. Comparative table of the duration of galvanic excitability of the va...Figure 1.4. In this 1867 illustration, a crowd of scientists watch in horror as ...Figure 1.5. French advertisement dating from 1911 for the “Herculex” electric be...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1. “Thus the electric spark of freedom will overthrow all the thrones o...Figure 2.2. Nollet designs electrical circuits to channel and direct static elec...Figure 2.3. The circuits thus designed lead to the application of static electri...Figure 2.4. The physicist imagines and improves his famous static electricity ma...Figure 2.5. Static electricity and its use in kocalisated therapy. Vigouroux, P....Figure 2.6. Nollet did many public demonstrations to show the links between the ...Figure 2.7. The Wimshurt machine, created in 1882 [GAN 94]Figure 2.8. “Only once, how foolhardy, to Venus on the pitch I gave a kiss. The ...Figure 2.9. Nollet, J. A. Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénomènes...Figure 2.10. Medal-winning machine at the 1878 Paris World Fair [ART 81, p. 49]Figure 2.11. Dr. Arthuis’ machine [VIG 82, p. 28, pl. V]Figure 2.12. Non-insulated exciter [VIG 82, p. 41, pl. VI]Figure 2.13. Insulated exciter [VIG 82, p. 41, pl. VI]Figure 2.14. Created in 1868 by the French engineer Ferdinand Philippe Carré (18...
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1. Anonymous representation, Georg Wilhelm Richmann’s accident (1753)Figure 3.2. This experience describes a treatment applied to a patient in May 18...
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1. From Haller’s work, 1755Figure 4.2. Diagram of Galvani’s
