On Deep History and The Brain
Contents
Preface.....................................................ix
Introduction: Toward Reunion in History.....................1
1. The Grip of Sacred History...............................12
2. Resistance...............................................40
3. Between Darwin and Lamarck...............................74
4. The New Neurohistory.....................................112
5. Civilization and Psychotropy.............................157
Epilogue: Looking Ahead.....................................190
Notes.......................................................203
Bibliography of Works Cited.................................229
Index.......................................................247
Chapter One
The Grip
of Sacred History
Like any author engaged in the task of building a plot, the historian
must grapple with the question of where to begin the story.
For historians of the particular, the problem of origins is not especially
acute. We choose some r ... read full excerpt from: On Deep History and the Brain ebook
