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| Introduction: A Bowl of Curds | |
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| Hearts and Minds, Livers and Stomachs | |
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| Greeks explore the soul, puzzle over the brain, and embrace the heart | |
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| Christians build a soul from ancient parts | |
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| Natural philosophy is born and anatomy becomes a sacred art | |
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| Vesalius discovers monkeys where men once stood | |
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| The Greeks are transformed, the soul questioned | |
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| World Without Soul | |
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| Anatomy of the cosmos | |
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| Galileo''s new sky | |
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| Marin Mersenne makes the world a machine | |
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| Pierre Gassendi sanctifies the atom | |
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| Descartes''s anatomy of clear ideas | |
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| The human body as earthen machine | |
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| The soul climbs into its cockpit | |
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| An arrest | |
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| The perfect argument | |
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| The ice queen makes Descartes an offer | |
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| The captive leaves its prison | |
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| Make Motion Cease | |
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| Thomas Willis with the beasts of the field | |
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| Protestants and Puritans | |
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| The divine right of kings and the complaints of Parliament | |
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| God and Aristotle at Oxford | |
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| Servant and alchemist | |
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| Mystical medicine comes to England | |
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| The Broken Heart of the Republic | |
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| Charles I stumbles toward war | |
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| Fever swings its scythe | |
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| Portrait of a physician as a young man | |
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| Willis fights for his king | |
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| Oxford dark and nasty | |
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| William Harvey under siege | |
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| Harvey at the school of Aristotle | |
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| Harvey finds the soul in the blood and says little about the brain | |
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| Harvey discovers the circle of blood | |
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| Oliver Cromwell tightens the noose | |
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| Surrender to madness | |
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| Pisse-Prophets Among the Puritans | |
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| Thomas Willis returns | |
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| Medicine in the marketplace | |
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| Ferments dissolve the four humors | |
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| The Puritans demand an oath | |
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| The Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club | |
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| William Petty: From Thomas Hobbes''s mouth to Thomas Willis''s ear | |
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| Charles becomes a martyr to the people | |
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| England the republic | |
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| The madness of defeat | |
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| The Miraculous Case of Anne Greene, or A Clock Reset | |
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| William Petty measures the soul of a nation | |
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| Willis hosts an illegal church | |
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| The Circle of Willis | |
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| William Harvey comes out of retirement | |
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| Thomas Willis searches for the agents of fever | |
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| The Experimental Philosophy Club fights for its life and for respectability | |
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| Hobbes as politician and neurologist | |
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| Robert Boyle gives shape to the New Science | |
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| Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Air | |
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| Willis stirs up a ferment of atoms | |
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| A crude dream of the brain | |
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| Cromwell uprooted | |
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| Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke pump away the soul | |
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| Christopher Wren, surgeon and injector | |
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| The return of the king | |
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| A Curious Quilted Ball | |
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| The Church of England meets its less than divine leader | |
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| Thomas Willis becomes hero of a nation | |
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| "I addicted myself to the opening of heads" | |
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| Willis discovers a doctrine of the nerves | |
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| The Royal Society | |
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| Convulsions | |
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| The lady with a migraine | |
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| Convulsions in the year of plague and fire | |
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| The Science of Brutes | |
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| From Oxford to London | |
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| Richard Lower transfuses blood into a madman | |
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| Lower and Hooke discover Willis''s mistake in the lungs of dogs | |
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| Willis constructs a doctrine of the soul | |
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| Madness explained | |
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| Thomas Willis avoids Hobbes''s fate | |
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| The Neurologist Vanishes | |
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| A final book by Thomas Willis and a ridiculously sumptuous funeral | |
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| How John Locke buried his teacher | |
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| Robert Boyle sees the future before he dies and is not consoled | |
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| The Soul''s Microscope | |
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| A long journey forward | |
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| The soul as information | |
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| Lightning in a nerve | |
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| The wisdom of the reflex | |
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| Neurologists read the brain | |
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| MRI and the module | |
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| The networked mind | |
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| The able animal soul | |
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| Emotion with reason, not versus | |
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| Steel syrup and Prozac | |
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| The self anatomized | |
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| The social brain | |
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| Morals and neurons | |
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| Lady Conway and Dr. Willis meet again Dramatis Personae | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |