Transhumane physiologie. Bilder und praktiken des reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall)

In Tobias Cheung (ed.), Early Science and Medicine. Brill. pp. 105-121 (2010)
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The essay examines the function of visualizations and practices in the formation of the reflex concept from Thomas Willis to Marshall Hall. It focuses on the specific form of reflex knowledge that images and practices can contain. In addition, the essay argues that it is through visual representations and experimental practices that technical knowledge is transferred to the field of human reflex physiology. When using technical metaphors in human physiology authors often seem to feel obliged to draw distinctions between humans, machines and animals. On closer scrutiny, these distinctions sometimes fail to establish firm borders between the human and the technical

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