01715 a2200349 4500 1317172809 20250317111557.0 250312042018GB 102 eng 9781317172802 01 eng MBX thema PDX thema NHAH thema JHB thema 3M bisac MBX bic PDX bic HBAH bic JHB bic 3J bisac HIS000000 bisac HIS037030 bisac 616.8047547 bisac Cornelius Borck Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography 1 Oxford Routledge 20180129 346 p 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. Ann Hentschel B06 3805 3805