Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Contributors ix
Preface David Bates Ninia Bassiri xi
1 Toward an Ethnography of Experimental Psychology Emily Martin 1
2 "You Are (Not) Your Synapses": Toward a Critical Approach to Neuroscience Catherine Malabou 20
3 Plasticity, Pathology, and Pleasure in Cold War America Cathy Gere 35
4 Epileptic Insanity and Personal Identity: John Hughlings Jackson and the Formations of the Neuropathic Self Nima Bassiri 65
5 Integrations, Vigilance, Catastrophe: The Neuropsychiatry of Aphasia in Henry Head and Kurt Goldstein Stefanos Geroulanos Todd Meyers 112
6 The History of a Brain Wound: Alexander Luria and the Dialectics of Soviet Plasticity Hannah Proctor Laura Salisbury 159
7 Automaticity, Plasticity, and the Deviant Origins of Artificial intelligence David Bates 194
8 Plastic Diagrams: Circuits in the Brain and How They Got There Joseph Dumit 219
9 Imperfect Reflections: Norms, Pathology, and Difference in Mirror Neuron Research Katja Guenther 268
10 On How Adult Cerebral Plasticity Research Has Decoupled Pathology from Death Tobias Rees 309
Index 343