Imagining the Brain: Episodes in the History of Brain Research

Part 1. Imagining the brain between body and soul1. Ventricular localization in late antiquity: The philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain functionJessica Wright2. The pathological and the normal: Mapping the brain in medieval medicineWilliam MacLehose3. Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nervesAlexander Wragge-Morley4. Gaetano Zumbo's anatomical wax model: From skull to craniumRose Marie San Juan Part 2. Representing the brain and the nervous system: Styles, media, practices5. The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell's anatomical watercoloursBrendan Clarke and Chiara Ambrosio6. Gertrude Stein's modernist brainChiara Ambrosio7. Imagining the brain as a book. Oskar and Cécile Vogt's "library of brains" Chantal Marazia and Heiner Fangerau8. Pinpricks: Needling, numbness, and temporalities of painLan A. Li Part 3. Inside the brain: Arguments and evidence in the making of the modern neurosciences9. From images to physiology: A strange paradox at the origin of modern neurosciencePaolo Mazzarello10. One, no-one and a hundred thousand brains: J.C. Eccles, J.Z. Young and the establishment of the neurosciences (1930s-1960s)Fabio De Sio11. Seeing patterns in neuroimaging dataJessey Andrew Kenneth Wright