Imagining the Brain: Episodes in the History of Brain Research

Part 1. Imagining the brain between body and soul

1. Ventricular localization in late antiquity: The philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain function
Jessica Wright

2. The pathological and the normal: Mapping the brain in medieval medicine
William MacLehose

3. Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621–1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nerves
Alexander Wragge-Morley

4. Gaetano Zumbo’s anatomical wax model: From skull to cranium
Rose Marie San Juan

Part 2. Representing the brain and the nervous system: Styles, media, practices

5. The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell’s anatomical watercolours
Brendan Clarke and Chiara Ambrosio

6. Gertrude Stein’s modernist brain
Chiara Ambrosio

7. Imagining the brain as a book. Oskar and Cécile Vogt’s "library of brains"
Chantal Marazia and Heiner Fangerau

8. Pinpricks: Needling, numbness, and temporalities of pain
Lan A. Li

Part 3. Inside the brain: Arguments and evidence in the making of the modern neurosciences

9. From images to physiology: A strange paradox at the origin of modern neuroscience
Paolo Mazzarello

10. One, no-one and a hundred thousand brains: J.C. Eccles, J.Z. Young and the establishment of the neurosciences (1930s–1960s)
Fabio De Sio

11. Seeing patterns in neuroimaging data
Jessey Andrew Kenneth Wright