From Claude Bernard to Walter Cannon. Emergence of the concept of homeostasis

Steven J Cooper

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.06.005

From Claude Bernard to Walter Cannon. Emergence of the concept of homeostasis

Appetite. 2008 Nov;51(3):419-27. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.06.005. Epub 2008 Jun 26.

Author

Steven J Cooper¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Bedford Street South, Liverpool, UK. J.C.G.Halford@Liverpool.ac.uk

PMID: 18634840
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.06.005

Abstract

Roots of current conceptions of the regulation of states of the body through negative feedback mechanisms are traced back to Bernard's ideas on active stabilisation of bodily states against disturbances from the outside, revived by Henderson and Haldane, and crystallised in Cannon's concept of homeostasis.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Energy Metabolism / physiology
France
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Homeostasis / physiology*
Humans
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Physiological Phenomena
Physiology / history*
United States

Personal name as subject

Claude Bernard
Walter B Cannon