16 research outputs found
Commencement address on June 15, 1921, delivered by Dr. Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson professor of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School. Some problems of readjustment in medical practice.
Full speech was not published in this reprint
A laboratory course in physiology /
Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet
Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage; an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement,
"References" at end of each chapter. "A list of published researches from the physiological laboratory in Harvard University, on which the present account is based": p. 302-303.Mode of access: Internet
Busman’s stomach and the embodiment of modernity
This paper examines the relationship between the gastric illness, ‘busman’s stomach’ and the Coronation bus strike of May 1937 in which 27,000 London busworkers walked out for better working conditions and a seven-and-half-hour day. It explores the way in which new patterns of somatisation, gastroenterological techniques, psychological theories and competing understandings of time worked together to create new political institutions and new forms of political action in inter-war Britain