The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History

Abstract

1. Bodies, Words, and Images. 2. Matter, Spirit, and the Heart. 3. The Human Mind and "Gland H": Cartesian Models of Mind, Brain, and Nerves. 4. When the Brain Came Out of the Skull. 5. Toward a New Physiology of Human Conduct. 6. Body of Witnesses. 7. The Transformation of Eve. 8. Mind Without Brain: John Locke, Thomas Syndenham, and the Constitutional Body of the British Enlightenment. 9. On the Persistence of the Cerebral Model and Its Alternatives: A Cultural Anthropology Perspective. Bodies, words, and images -- Matter, spirit, and the heart -- The human mind and "gland H" : Cartesian models of mind, brain, and nerves -- When the brain came out of the skull -- Body of witnesses -- Toward a new physiology of human conduct -- The transformation of Eve -- Mind without brain : John Locke, Thomas Sydenham, and the constitutional body of the British Enlightenment -- On the persistence of the cerebral body and its alternatives.