Irritating Experiments Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90

One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller's treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). Irritating Experiments is the first full-length study to explore the theoretica...

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Main Author: Steinke, Hubert (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 2005
Series:Clio Medica
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