Introduction / Delia Gavrus and Stephen T. Casper
"We are veritable animals" : the nineteenth-century Paris menagerie as a site for the science of intelligence / L. Stephen Jacyna
"Physiological surgery" : laboratory science as the epistemic basis of modern surgery (and neurosurgery) / Thomas Schlich
Configuring epidemic encephalitis as a national and international neurological concern / Kenton Kroker
Circuits, algae, and whipped cream : the biophysics of nerve, ca. 1930 / Max Stadler
Epilepsy and the laboratory technician : technique in histology and fiction / Delia Gavrus
"What was in their luggage?" : German refugee neuroscientists, migrating technologies, and the emergence of interdisciplinary research networks in North America, 1933 to 1963 / Frank W. Stahnisch
Dualist techniques for materialist imaginaries : matter and mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain / Stephen T. Casper
A "model schizophrenia" : amphetamine psychosis and the transformation of American psychiatry / Justin Garson
Salvation through reductionism : the National Institute of Mental Health and the return to biological psychiatry / Brian P. Casey
Coda : technique, marginality, and history / Katja Guenther.