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Research Interests:I am interested in the history of neuroscience and medicine, especially the relationship between brain and behavior as perceived by scientists in earlier time periods. I have just completed a monograph looking at Benjamin Franklin’s forays into medicine (“Doctor Franklin’s Medicine”). Among my other monographs and edited books are one on ancient cranial trepanation (holes made in the skulls of living people), another on how physicians from different cultures and time periods, such as Hippocrates, Galen and Broca, tried to understanding the organ of mind, and a third, more encyclopedic text, on the roots of the neurosciences. I have also been writing historical papers on: (a) therapeutic electricity, (b) phantom limbs, (c) recovery from brain damage, (d) cerebral dominance, (e) disabilities in literature, (f) recognition of attention deficit disorder, (g) neuroscientists such as Helmholtz and Schaefer, and (h) Touette’s and other neurological syndromes. I am also working on two new edited books, “History of Clinical Neurology” (Elsevier) and “Brain, Mind, and Medicine: Essays in 18th-Century Neuroscience (Springer).I am the senior editor
of the "Journal of the History of the Neurosciences." To view: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0964704X.asp.
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Books:Finger, S. Doctor
Franklin’s Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. (379 pp.)
Arnott, R., Finger, S.,
& Smith, C.U.M. (eds), Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory.
Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger, 2003. (408 pp.)
Finger, S. Minds Behind
the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and their Discoveries . New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000. (364 pp.)
Finger, S. The Origins
of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994. (462 pages).
Finger, S., LeVere, T.,
Almli, C. R., & Stein, D. G. (Eds.) Brain Injury and Recovery:
Theoretical and Controversial Issues. New York: Plenum, 1988. (368 pages).
Almli, C. R., &
Finger, S. (Ed.) Early Brain Damage, Vol. l. Research orientations and
clinical observations. New York: Academic Press, 1984. (368 pages)
Finger, S., & Almli,
C. R. (Ed.) Early Brain Damage, Vol. 2. Neurobiology and Behavior. New York:
Academic Press, 1984. (387 pages)
Finger, S., & Stein,
D. G. Brain Damage and Recovery of Function: Research and Clinical
Implications. New York: Academic Press, l982. (368 pages)
Finger, S. (Ed.),
Recovery from Brain Damage: Research and Theory. New York: Plenum Publishing
Co., l978. (420 pages)
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Selection of Recent Edited
Journal Articles
Finger, S. (in press, expected 2006). Benjamin
Franklin, electricity and the palsies: On the 300th anniversary of
his birth. Neurology.
Finger, S., and Zaromb,
F. Benjamin Franklin and shock-induced amnesia. (in press, expected 2006).
American Psychologist.
Boudreau, S. A., and
Finger, S. (in press, expected 2006)Medical electricity and madness in the
eighteenth century: The legacies of Benjamin Franklin and Jan Ingenhousz.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
Kirchenbaum, E.,
Schalick, W. O. III, Faber, D. P., and Finger. S. 2005. Hector Landouzy on
facial paralyses in newborn children. The case studies of a 19th-century
French hospital physician. Pediatric Rehabilitation, 8, 180-186.
Finger, S., and Christ,
S. E. 2004. Pearl Buck and phenylketonuria. Journal of the History of the
Neurosciences, 13, 353-357.
Finger, S., Koehler, P.
J., and Jagella, C. 2004. Monakow’s concept of diaschsis: Origins and
perspectives. Archives of Neurology, 61, 283-288.
Finger, S., and Hustwit,
M. 2003. Five early account of phantom limb in context: Pare,
Descartes, Bell, Lemos and Mitchell. Neurosurgery, 52, 675-686. Finger, S, and Clower,
W. T. 2001. Victor Horsley on "trephining in pre-historic times."
Neurosurgery, 48, 911-918.
Palmer, E. D., and Finger,
S. 2001. An early description of ADHD (Inattention Subtype): Dr. Alexander
Crichton and the "Mental Restlessness" (1798). Child Psychology and
Psychiatry Reviews, 6, 66-73.
Finger, S., Gehr, S. E.,
and West, A. L. 2001. Dual personality and the brain: The case studies of
Lewis C. Bruce in the 1890s. History of Psychiatry, 12, 59-71.
Sparrow, E. P., and
Finger, S. 2001. Edward Albert Sch‰fer (Sharpey-Schafer) and his
Contributions to Neuroscience: Commemorating of the 150th Anniversary of his
Birth. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 10, 41-57.
Gallo, D., and Finger,
S. 2000. The Power of a Musical Instrument: Franklin, The Mozarts, Mesmer and
the Glass Armonica. History of Psychology, 3, 326-343.
Finger, S., Beyer, T.,
and Koehler, P. 2000. Dr. Otto Soltmann (1876) on the Development of the
Motor Cortex and Recovery after its Removal in Infancy." Brain Research
Bulletin, 53, 133-140.
Finger, S. 1999.
Margaret Kennard on sparing and recovery of function: A tribute on the 100th
anniversary of her birth. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 8,
269-285.
Norrsell, U., Finger,
S., and Lajonchere, C. 1999. The discovery of cutaneous sensory spots in the
1880s and the law of "specific nerve energies": History and
Contemporary Findings. Brain Research Bulletin, 48, 457-465.
Kanne, S. M. and Finger,
S. Konstantin M. Bykov and the discovery of the role of the corpus callosum.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1999, 54, 572-590.
Kushner, H. I.,
Luzzatti, C, and Finger, S. A Perplexing Document in the Early History of
Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: Melotti's Rendition of a "Lecture by
Charcot." (Including a complete translation from the Italian with
Commentary.) Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 1999, 8, 5-20.
Finger, S., and Roe, D.
Does Gustave Dax deserve to be forgotten? The temporal lobe theory and other
contributions of an overlooked figure in the history of language and cerebral
dominance. Brain and Language, 1999, 69, 16-30.
Lajonchere, C., and Finger,
S. 1999. Henry Herbert Donaldson (1857-1938). In American National Biography.
New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 716-717.
Finger, S. 1998. "A
happy state of mind": An Early history of mild elation, denial of
disability, optimism, and laughing in multiple sclerosis. Archives of
Neurology, 55, 241-250
Finger, S., and Law, M.
B. 1998. Karl August Weinhold and his "science" in the era of Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein: Experiments on electricity and the restoration of
life. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 53, 161-180.
Buckingham, H., and
Finger, S. 1997. David Hartley's psychobiological associationism and the
legacy of Aristotle. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 6, 21-37.
Finger, S. 1997.
Alexander Forbes. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 6, 106-107.
Lajonchere, C., Nortz,
M., and Finger, S. 1996. Gilles de la Tourette and the discovery of
Tourtette's syndrome: (Including a translation of his 1884 paper). Archives
of Neurology, 53, 567-574.
S. Finger and D. Roe.
1996. Gustave Dax and the early history of cerebral dominance Archives of
Neurology, 53, 806-813.
D. Roe and S. Finger.
1996. Gustave Dax and his fight for recognition: An overlooked chapter in the
history of cerebral dominance. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences,
5, 228-240.
Finger, S. 1995.
Descartes and the pineal gland in animals: A frequent misinterpretation.
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 4, 166-182.
Finger, S. 1995. The
pineal gland of Descartes: Does it differ in the brutes? European Pineal
Society News, 33, 9-14.
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