Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “We Are Veritable Animals”: The Nineteenth-Century Paris Menagerie as a Site for the Science of Intelligence
- 2 “Physiological Surgery”: Laboratory Science as the Epistemic Basis of Modern Surgery (and Neurosurgery)
- 3 Configuring Epidemic Encephalitis as a National and International Neurological Concern
- 4 Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, ca. 1930
- 5 Epilepsy and the Laboratory Technician: Technique in Histology and Fiction
- 6 “What Was in Their Luggage?”: German Refugee Neuroscientists, Migrating Technologies, and the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Research Networks in North America, 1933 to 1963
- 7 Dualist Techniques for Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain
- 8 A “Model Schizophrenia”: Amphetamine Psychosis and the Transformation of American Psychiatry
- 9 Salvation through Reductionism: The National Institute of Mental Health and the Return to Biological Psychiatry
- Coda: Technique, Marginality, and History
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “We Are Veritable Animals”: The Nineteenth-Century Paris Menagerie as a Site for the Science of Intelligence
- 2 “Physiological Surgery”: Laboratory Science as the Epistemic Basis of Modern Surgery (and Neurosurgery)
- 3 Configuring Epidemic Encephalitis as a National and International Neurological Concern
- 4 Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, ca. 1930
- 5 Epilepsy and the Laboratory Technician: Technique in Histology and Fiction
- 6 “What Was in Their Luggage?”: German Refugee Neuroscientists, Migrating Technologies, and the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Research Networks in North America, 1933 to 1963
- 7 Dualist Techniques for Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain
- 8 A “Model Schizophrenia”: Amphetamine Psychosis and the Transformation of American Psychiatry
- 9 Salvation through Reductionism: The National Institute of Mental Health and the Return to Biological Psychiatry
- Coda: Technique, Marginality, and History
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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- The History of the Brain and Mind SciencesTechnique, Technology, Therapy, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017