Gulliver meets Descartes: Early modern concepts of age-related memory loss

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Schäfer, Daniel ^a  

^a Inst Hist Med/Med Ethics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; AMNESIA; CARTESIANISM; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELDERLY CARE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IATROMECHANISM; LITERATURE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; HISTORY; IRELAND; PUBLIC FIGURE;

AGING; DEMENTIA; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, EARLY MODERN 1451-1600; HUMANS; IRELAND; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 0037872032     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jhin.12.1.1.13786     Document Type: Review

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