When1: 1911
When2: 1932
Who: Walter Bradford Cannon [Cannon, Walter Bradford]
What: physiologist
Where: USA
works\ Mechanical Factors of Digestion [1911]; Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage [1915 and 1929]; Wisdom of the Body [1932]
Detail: He lived 1871 to 1945 and studied psychosomatic disease and fear and rage biochemistry. Body maintains chemical and function equilibrium {homeostasis, Cannon}. Body uses feedback signals to indicate needs and to initiate action to obtain needs.
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