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020			_a9780199782215 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk.
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050	0	4	_aQP341 _b.S563 2013
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aPiccolino, Marco. _e1
245	1	0	_aShocking frogs : _bGalvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience / _cMarco Piccolino, Marco Bresadola ; translated by Nicholas Wade.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"Frogs, Torpedoes, and Sparks: Galvani, Volta, and Animal Electricity is an English translation of Rane, torpedini e scintille. Galvani, Volta e l'elettricità animale (Torino, Italy: Bollati-Boringhieri, 2003)"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aMachine generated contents note: -- _tForeword -- _tAuthors' preface to the Italian edition -- _tAuthors' preface to the English edition -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1. Galvani, Volta and the forgotten electrophysiology -- _t2. "Truth and usefulness": medicine and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century -- _t2.1 Galvani's education in Bologna: the University, the Institute of Sciences, and the hospitals -- _t2.2. Galvani's professional career -- _t2.3 Galvani's early anatomo-physiological investigation -- _t3. Animal spirits, vital forces, and electricity: nervous conduction and muscular motion in the eighteenth century -- _t3.1 The debate on Hallerian irritability -- _t3.2 The study of electricity in the eighteenth century -- _t3.3. "Artificial" electricity, "natural" electricity and their role in the human body -- _t3.4. Electric fish -- _t4. Artificial electricity, the spark, and the nervous fluid: Galvani's early research on muscular motion -- _t4.1 The beginning of electrophysiological experimentation -- _t4.2. A "problematic" turn: the observation of contractions at a distance -- _t4.3. Galvani's Saggio sulla forza nervea of 1782 -- _t5. A "fortunate" discovery: Galvani's theory of animal electricity -- _t5.1. The study of "airs" in relation to the living organism -- _t5.2. The effects of atmospheric electricity on muscular motion and the discovery of metal arcs -- _t5.3. The model of the muscle as an animal Leyden jar -- _t5.4. The final elaboration of the theory of animal electricity -- _t6. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the first stage -- _t6.1. Galvani's work in the scientific culture of the late eighteenth century -- _t6.2 Volta's early research on animal electricity: quantification, muscular physiology, and the "special theory of contact electricity" -- _t6.3. Galvani's Trattato dell'arco conduttore: the criticism against Volta and the notion of a circuit of animal electricity -- _t7. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the second stage -- _t7.1. Volta's "general theory of contact electricity" -- _t7.2. Galvani's reply to Volta's criticisms and the1797 Memorie sulla elettricità animale -- _t7.3 Galvani's research on electric fish and the various forms of electricity -- _t7.4 The conclusion of the Galvani-Volta controversy -- _t8. The electrophysiological work of Alessandro Volta -- _t8.1 Volta and life sciences -- _t8.2 Volta's research on sensations -- _t8.3 Sensation and muscular motion in Volta's "chain" experiments -- _t8.4 Volta's research on electric fishes and the invention of the electric battery -- _t9. From Galvani to Hodgkin and beyond: the central problem of electrophysiology in the last two centuries -- _t9.1 Measuring animal electricity -- _t9.2 Nervous conduction: propagated electric signal and the firing of a train of gun-powder -- _t9.3. The involvement of animal electricity in nerve conduction demonstrated -- _t10. Neuromuscular excitability: the modern explanation -- _t10.1 Cell membrane and ions: a machine generating electric potentials -- _t10.2. The electric mechanism of nerve conduction and muscle excitation -- _t11. Concluding remarks -- _tBibliography.
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650		0	_aElectrophysiology _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aBresadola, Marco.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=644694&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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