Writing the Brain

Acknowledgements

The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction

Chapter 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and Atom
Harp-Strings
Mind-Strings
Mind-Matter
Mind-Atoms

Chapter 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral Vision
The Sleepers
Dialoging the Self
Hemispheric Voices
Master-Minds

Chapter 3: Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ Entity
Brain-Damage
Phrenology as Sociology
Phrenological Victorianism
Phrenological Americanism
Phrenology's Real

Chapter 4: Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric Real
Uncommon Minds
Great Brains
A Cranial Case Study
Realism as Psychometry

Chapter 5: Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material Metacognition
You, Me, Brain
Metempsychosis as Metacognition
Insanity as Pop Culture
Psychosis as Metacognition

Chapter 6: The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-Neurons
Thoughts on Wires
Telegraphed Minds
Introspective Brain-Machines

Afterword
References
Index

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