Review: Hubert Steinke, Irritating Experiments: Haller’s Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90 (Amsterdam and New York, 2005)

Authors

Andre Wakefield, Pitzer CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Program

History (Pitzer)

Publication Date

6-2006

Keywords

Physiology, Animal experimentation, History, 18th Century-Europe, Muscle Contraction, Senses and sensation, Spiercontracties, Neurotransmissie, Irritability

Abstract

Reviewed work: Hubert Steinke. Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. 354 pp. $97.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-1852-5.

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Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/irw,246.

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Andre Wakefield. Review of Steinke, Hubert, Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90. H-German, H-Net Reviews. June, 2006. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=11872