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Between Clinic and Experiment: Wilder Penfield's Stimulation Reports and the Search for Mind, 1929–55
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Between Clinic and Experiment: Wilder Penfield's Stimulation Reports and the Search for Mind, 1929–55
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The American-born Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) immigrated to Montreal in 1928 to teach at McGill University and became the city's first neurosurgeon. In 1934, Penfield founded and became the first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and its associated Montreal Neurological Hospital. The author examined the nearly 5,000 pages of unpublished and unconsidered reports of electrical cortical stimulation that Penfield compiled between 1929 and 1955, in order to trace how Penfield's interest shifted from the production of hospital-based records designed to help him navigate the brains of individual patients to the construction of universal brain maps to aid his search for an ever-elusive “mind.” Reading the developments of Penfield's operation records over time, the author examines the particular ways in which Penfield straddled the individual and the universal while attempting to align his clinical and scientific interests, thereby exposing his techniques to standardize and normalize his brain maps.
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Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine
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Vol. 33
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no. 2
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281-320
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Fall 2016
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en
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Guenther, Katja. “Between Clinic and Experiment: Wilder Penfield’s Stimulation Reports and the Search for Mind, 1929–55.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine Vol. 33, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 281–320.
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