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Tables of Contents for THE BRAIN TAKES SHAPE
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Selected Events and Historical Actors
xxiii
1. Bodies, Words, and Images,
1
22
Likeness and Presence,
3
8
Vesalius and Likeness,
4
2
Fuchs and Likeness,
6
1
Representing Likeness,
7
2
Words First,
9
2
Humoral Bodies and William Harvey,
11
2
Noble Parts,
13
4
Conclusion,
17
6
2. Matter, Spirit, and the Heart,
23
24
Formation of the Oxford Group,
26
1
The Importance of Spirit: Paracelsus, Francis Bacon, and Johan Baptista van Helmont,
26
6
Paracelsus,
26
2
Francis Bacon,
28
3
Van Helmont,
31
1
Atomism: Descartes and Gassendi,
32
2
Blood and Body during the Protectorate,
34
4
Blood on the Restoration Stage,
38
9
Helmontians Seek and Fail to Gain Official Place,
39
1
Experimenting with the Blood: Injections and Transfusions,
40
2
Phosphorus,
42
5
3. The Human Mind and "Gland H": Cartesian Models of Mind, Brain, and Nerves,
47
28
Chronological Issues,
52
23
4. When the Brain Came out of the Skull,
75
20
Methods and Models of Knowledge,
79
2
Humans' Place in the Animal Kingdom,
81
2
The Virtues of Artifice,
83
1
Solids and Ventricles,
84
1
The Case against Descartes's Pineal,
85
2
The Importance of Hierarchy,
87
3
Conclusion,
90
5
5. Body of Witnesses,
95
34
Death into Life,
95
3
Public versus Private,
98
4
Emergence of Dissections as "Pretty",
102
7
Patrons and the Larger Project,
109
3
Theological Concerns,
112
4
Maintaining Sovereignty,
116
13
6. Toward a New Physiology of Human Conduct,
129
24
Descartes's Physiology of Passion,
131
4
Willis's Physiology of Passion and Reason,
135
5
Willis and Unreason,
140
4
Stupidity,
144
9
7. The Transformation of Eve,
153
22
Traditional Economies of Female Moisture,
154
2
Medical Knowledge and Gender,
156
4
Blood versus Brain,
160
6
Alternative Visions: The Case of Anne Conway,
166
3
Conclusion,
169
6
8. Mind Without Brain: John Locke, Thomas Sydenham, and the Constitutional Body of the British Enlightenment,
175
24
Metaphysics and Strangeness,
175
3
Empiricism Becomes Respectable,
178
1
Continental Challenge,
179
1
Locke, Sydenham, and Their Revival of Hippocratic Empiricism,
180
4
No Body but a "Constitution",
184
2
Hippocrates, Galen, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge,
186
5
Willis, Locke, and Smuggled Mental Baggage,
191
8
9. On the Persistence of the Cerebral Body and Its Alternatives,
199
20
The Cerebral Body and the Logic of Biomedicine,
199
3
Sectarianism Persists,
202
3
Allegiances and Medical Choices,
205
2
Medical Modernity as a Shotgun Marriage,
207
1
The Cerebral Body and Public Policy,
208
1
Tracing Descartes Today,
209
5
Conclusion,
214
5
Index,
219