A Brief History of Brain Archiving

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 396-410

  Gere, Cathy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical specimens; Brain banking; Pathological specimens; Tissue banking

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ARCHIVES; BRAIN; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, MODERN 1601-; HUMANS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE BANKS;

EID: 1642320162     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jhin.12.4.396.27916     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. Abelanet R, de Saint-Maur P (1991): Le Musée Dupuytren, passé et présent. Hist Sci Med 25: 127-131.
2. Andriezen WL (1894): On some of the newer aspects of the pathology of insanity. Brain 17: 548-692.
3. Bean RB (1908): Some racial peculiarities of the Negro brain. Am J Anat 5: 353-432.
4. Bichat X (1800): Traité des membranes. Paris, Veuve Richard.
5. Black P (ed.) (1992): The Surgical Art of Harvey Cushing. Park Ridge, IL, The American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
6. Chesler M (1991): Mobilizing consumer activism in health care: the role of self-help groups. Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change 13: 275-305.
7. Cole FJ (1921): The history of anatomical injections. In: Charles S, ed., Studies in the History and Method of Science. Oxford, Clarendon Press, Vol. II, pp. 285-343.
8. De Chardarevian S, Kamminga H (eds.) (1998): Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances 1910s-1970s. Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers.
9. Dickman S (1990): Memorial ceremony to be held. Nature 345: 192.
10. Findlay A, Mills W (eds.) (1947): British Chemists. London, The Chemical Society.
11. Finger S (1994): Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press.
12. Fulton J (1946): Harvey Cushing, a Biography. Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd.
13. Gould SJ (1996): The Mismeasure of Man. London, Penguin Books.
14. Hagner M (1999): Prolegomena to a history of radical brains in the nineteenth century: physiognomics, phrenology, brain anatomy. Physis 36: 321-338.
15. Hansen J (1996): Resurrecting death: anatomical art in the cabinet of Dr. Frederik Ruysch. Art Bull 78: 663-679.
16. Harrington A (1987): Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain; A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
17. Harrington A (1991): Beyond phrenology: localization theory in the modern era. In: Pietro C, ed., The Enchanted Loom: Chapters in the History of Neuroscience. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press.
18. Houel C (1877-1880): Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren. Paris, R. Dupont.
19. Hunter W (1784): Two Introductory Lectures. London, J. Johnson.
20. Hutchins (1787): A Descriptive Catalogue of a Very Extensive and Capital Collection of Anatomical Preparations: Original Casts of the Gravid Uterus, Accurately Moulded from Nature, Coloured Anatomical Drawings, and Natural History; Forming the Entire and Genuine Museum of an Eminent Professor of Anatomy, Who has Declined Teaching. London, Hutchins.
21. Jacyna S (2000): Lost Words: Narratives of Language and the Brain, 1825-1926. Princeton, Oxford, Princeton University Press.
22. Kidd M, Modlin I (1999): Frederik Ruysch: master anatomist and depictor of the surreality of death. J Med Biogr 7: 69-77.
23. Laskey J (1813): A General Account of the Hunterian Museum Glasgow. Glasgow, John Smith and Son.
24. Lifton R (1986): The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York, Basic Books.
25. Mall FP (1909): On several anatomical characters of the human brain, said to vary according to race and sex, with especial reference to the weight of the frontal lobe. Am J Anat 9: 1-32.
26. Maurain J (1930): La Politique ecclésiastique du Second Empire de 1852 á 1869. Paris, Alcan.
27. Orfila J (1842): Muséum d'anatomie pathologique de la faculté de medicine de Paris ou Musée Dupuytren. Paris, Bechet et Labé.
28. Peachey G (1924): A Memoir of William and John Hunter. Plymouth, William Brendon and Son, Ltd.
29. Peiffer J (1997): Hirnforschung im Zwielicht: Beispeile verführbarer Wissenschaft aus der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Husum, Matthiessen.
30. Pole T (1813): The Anatomical Instructor. London, J. Callow.
31. Rabinow P (1996): Essays on the Anthropology of Reason. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
32. Richardson R (1987): Death, Dissection and the Destitute. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul.
33. Rupp JC (1990): Matters of life and death: the social and cultural conditions of the rise of anatomical theatres, with special reference to seventeenth century Holland. Hist Sci 28: 263-287.
34. Ruysch F (1727-1744): Thesaurus Anatomicus, primus - decimus. Amsterdam, J. Waesbergios (first published 1701-1716).
35. Ruysch F (1738): Epistola Anatomica, Problematica, Duodecima. Amsterdam, J. Waesbergios (first published 1699).
36. Schiller F (1979): Paul Broca: Founder of French Anthropology, Explorer of the Brain. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press.
37. Schmuhl H (2000): Hirnforschung und Krankenmord: Das Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Hirnforschung 1937-1945. Berlin: Max-Planck Insitut für Wissenschaftgeschichte.
38. Shevell M (1992): Racial hygiene, active euthanasia, and Julius Hallervorden. Neurology 42: 2214-2219.
39. Spitzka E (1907): A study of the brains of six eminent scientists and scholars belonging to the American Anthropometric Society. Trans Am Phil Soc 21: 175-308.
40. Teacher JH (1900): Catalogue of the Anatomical and Pathological Preparations of Dr William Hunter in the Hunterian Museum. Glasgow, Hunterian Museum.
41. Todd J, Ashworth L (1991): The West Riding Asylum and James Crichton-Browne, 1818-1876. In: Berrios G, Freeman H, eds., 150 Years of British Psychiatry, 1841-1991. London, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
42. Tourtellotte WW, Rosario I, Riehl J, Sanders V, Syndulko K, Pick P, McGeer P (1999): Banking Human Neurospecimens. In: Adleman G, Smith B, eds., Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2nd edition.
43. UK Department of Health (2000): Report of a Census of Organs and Tissues Retained by Pathology Services in England. London, The Stationery Office.