Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Technique, Technology, and Therapy in the Brain and Mind Sciences 1
5. 1 “We Are Veritable Animals”: The Nineteenth-Century Paris Menagerie as a Site for the Science of Intelligence 25
6. 2 “Physiological Surgery”: Laboratory Science as the Epistemic Basis of Modern Surgery (and Neurosurgery) 48
7. 3 Configuring Epidemic Encephalitis as a National and International Neurological Concern 77
8. 4 Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, ca. 1930 107
9. 5 Epilepsy and the Laboratory Technician: Technique in Histology and Fiction 136
10. 6 “What Was in Their Luggage?”: German Refugee Neuroscientists, Migrating Technologies, and the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Research Networks in North America, 1933 to 1963 164
11. 7 Dualist Techniques for Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain 183
12. 8 A “Model Schizophrenia”: Amphetamine Psychosis and the Transformation of American Psychiatry 202
13. 9 Salvation through Reductionism: The National Institute of Mental Health and the Return to Biological Psychiatry 229
14. Coda: Technique, Marginality, and History 257
15. Bibliography 265
16. List of Contributors 297
17. Index 301