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

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