The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences – Technique, Technology, Therapy: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Stephen T. Casper, Delia Gavrus

Acknowledgments Introduction "We Are Veritable Animals": The Nineteenth-Century Paris Menagerie as a Site for the Science of Intelligence "Physiological Surgery": Laboratory Science as the Epistemic Basis of Modern Surgery (and Neurosurgery) Configuring Epidemic Encephalitis as a National and International Neurological Concern Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, ca. 1930 Epilepsy and the Laboratory Technician: Technique in Histology and Fiction "What Was in Their Luggage?": German Refugee Neuroscientists, Migrating Technologies, and the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Research Networks in North America, 1933 to 1963 Dualist Techniques for Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain A "Model Schizophrenia": Amphetamine Psychosis and the Transformation of American Psychiatry 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