Dissertation Information for Susan Leigh StarNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: SCIENTIFIC THEORIES AS GOING CONCERNS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCALIZATIONIST PERSPECTIVE IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, 1870-1906 Abstract: This thesis in the sociology of science describes the development of a scientific perspective as based in daily work, professional and institutional constraints. The development of the localizationist perspective in British neurophysiology from 1870-1906 is analyzed. This perspective developed from four lines of work (neurology, physiology, surgery and pathology), and with several intersecting contexts (the growth of medical specialization, lack of support for British physiology, professionalization of physicians and surgeons, the antivivisection battle, and patients' physical and economic situations). Its components included the ideas that mind is carried upon an anatomical substrate, within a hierarchically-ordered nervous system; that the individual mind is contained within the skull; and that nervous system functions may be observed by deleting parts of it. |
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Students under Susan Leigh Star
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COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Mark Aaron Spasser - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998)
- John Isenhour - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2000)
- Laura Jeanne Neumann - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2001)
- Cory Philip Knobel - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2010)