{"product_id":"irritating-experiments-hubert-steinke-9789042018525","title":"Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90","description":"One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller's treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752).\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIrritating Experiments\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study to explore the theoretical background and the experimental process that led to Haller's description and separation of two fundamental bodily qualities: irritability, or the capacity of muscles to contract upon stimulation, and sensibility, or the capacity of the nervous system to transmit impressions that are felt as touch or pain in humans, or produce signs of pain in animals.\u003cbr\u003e This new concept presented a serious challenge to the reigning medical systems. Haller's animal experiments were repeated all over Europe, on a scale never seen before. The results, however, were contradictory. Haller's concept was largely rejected, and animal experimentation could not be established as a major research method in physiology. Focussing on procedural aspects of experimentation, the interaction between experiment and theory, the status of surgery, the use of medical and pathological models, and the culture of criticism, \u003ci\u003e Irritating Experiments\u003c\/i\u003e tries to explain why.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hubert Steinke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9042018526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789042018525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 5.91w x 0.75d","brand":"Hubert Steinke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447025643775,"sku":"9789042018525","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06907234-0b23-44b6-a4ed-6725c5e2ac39.jpg?v=1777228327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irritating-experiments-hubert-steinke-9789042018525","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}