The Animal Spirit Doctrine and the Origins of Neurophysiology

Section 1: The Doctrine Introduced Introduction Chronology Chapter 1: Psyche and soma Chapter 2: Alexandria and Hellenistic psychophysiology Section 2: The Doctrine Established Introduction Chronology Chapter 3: Biblical anima-spirit Chapter 4: The Islamic Ascendancy Chapter 5: Animal spirit in an age of Faith Section 3: The Doctrine Questioned Introduction Chronology Chapter 6: Descartes Chapter 7: Experiment and observation Chapter 8: Theory and argument Section 4: The Doctrine in Retreat Introduction Chronology Chapter 9: Vibrations and subtle fluids Chapter 10: Animal spirit in action Chapter 11: Non-spiritual physiology I: " rather than <"Psychic <" Functions Chapter 12 Non-spiritual physiology II: Irritable fibers Section 5: The Doctrine Discarded Introduction Chronology Chapter 13: The increasingly electrical world Chapter 14: Electric fishes and the path to animal electricity Chapter 15: From Fish to Frogs and nerve Electricity Epilogue Bibliography Index