CALGARY DINNER & TALK: Frank Stahnisch - A New Field in Mind

University of Calgary - Teaching, Research, & Wellness Centre, 3300 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB
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RSVP to Mrs. Donna Weich 403-220-2481 or donna.weich@ucalgary.ca

Join Frank Stahnisch for a dinner and talk celbrating his new book, A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences. The event will be held in the Rose and Nightingale Rooms, located on the third floor of the Teaching, Research, & Welness Centre building of the Foothills Medical Campus. Presented by the Calgary History of Medicine Society.

Frank W. Stahnisch is professor of history and holds the Alberta Medical Foundation / Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Calgary.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In recent decades, developments in research technologies and therapeutic advances have generated immense public recognition for neuroscience. However, its origins as a field, often linked to partnerships and projects at various brain-focused research centres in the United States during the 1960s, can be traced much further back in time. An in-depth and innovative study, A New Field in Mind tracks the emergence and evolution of neuroscientific research from the late nineteenth century to the postwar period.