Imagining the Brain: Episodes in the History of Brain Research

<p>Part 1. Imagining the brain between body and soul<br>1. Ventricular localization in late antiquity: The philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain function<br>Jessica Wright<br>2. The pathological and the normal: Mapping the brain in medieval medicine<br>William MacLehose<br>3. Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621–1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nerves<br>Alexander Wragge-Morley<br>4. Gaetano Zumbo’s anatomical wax model: From skull to cranium<br>Rose Marie San Juan</p> <p>Part 2. Representing the brain and the nervous system: Styles, media, practices<br>5. The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell’s anatomical watercolours<br>Brendan Clarke and Chiara Ambrosio<br>6. Gertrude Stein’s modernist brain<br>Chiara Ambrosio<br>7. Imagining the brain as a book. Oskar and Cécile Vogt’s "library of brains" <br>Chantal Marazia and Heiner Fangerau<br>8. Pinpricks: Needling, numbness, and temporalities of pain<br>Lan A. Li</p> <p>Part 3. Inside the brain: Arguments and evidence in the making of the modern neurosciences<br>9. From images to physiology: A strange paradox at the origin of modern neuroscience<br>Paolo Mazzarello<br>10. One, no-one and a hundred thousand brains: J.C. Eccles, J.Z. Young and the establishment of the neurosciences (1930s–1960s)<br>Fabio De Sio<br>11. Seeing patterns in neuroimaging data<br>Jessey Andrew Kenneth Wright</p>