Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
by
Gabriel Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818–1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous...