HIST 4200 Chapter Notes - Chapter eResource: Cerebral Cortex, Mad Scientist, Animal Testing
20 Mar 2017
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To analyze and explain how the events and the themes of the fiction novel dracula parallel the progress of nineteenth century science, physiological psychology in particular, from a discourse of the soul into a discourse of the brain (51) Dracula is a work of anti science fiction, meaning it is a form of apocalyptic fantasy verging on religious myth. Cerebral automatism: unconscious behaviour direction by the brain. Cerebral localization: the mapping of the cerebral cortex into areas that perform a specific function. Vivisection: the practise of performing operations on animals for science research. Victorian society did not welcome the theory of cerebral automatism as it likened human beings to animals, and implied that humans were not divine creations with free will, made in the image of god. The idea that we are a sum of our brain functions seems to contrast with the idea that we have a soul.
