An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage Book

Preface
1 Introduction
The Structure of the Book
Construction and Fabrication
2 Background to Fame
The Case of Phineas Gage
The Farming Background
Working on the Railroad
"Tamkin" and the Accident
Conclusion
Notes
3 Early Receptions: Popular and Medical
Newspapers from September 1848 to March 1849
Henry Jacob Bigelow and the Medical Skeptics
The Tamping Iron and the Museum
Notes
4 The Implications of Harlow's Treatment
Harlow's Treatment
Antiphlogistic and Other Therapies
Harlow's Treatment Compared with Others
Acknowledgments of Harlow's Experience
Injury and Resistance
Gage the Standard
Conclusion
Notes
5 The Wonderful Journey
The Damage to Gage's Skull
The Damage to Gage's Brain
Conclusion
Notes
6 The Damage to Gage's Psyche
Psychological Change
Subsequent History
What Harlow Most Desired to See
The Reception Given Harlow's History
Additions to the History
A Kind of Conclusion
Notes
7 Localization: The Background
Early Clinical and Experimental Findings
Early Brain Anatomy
Ventricular Physiology and Clinical Observations
Psychological Function and Ventricular Physiology
Conclusion
Notes
8 Localization: The Beginnings
Functions for the Brain
Functions in the Roots of the Spinal Nerves
Sensory-Motor Physiology
Bain's Sensory-Motor Psychology
Conclusion
Notes
9 Localization in the Brain
Sensory-Motor Processes in the Brain
Language and the Brain
Sensory-Motor Processes and the Localization of Language
Conclusion
Notes
10 Gage and Surgery for the Brain
Aphasia, Localization, and Brain Surgery
Sensory-MotorPhysiology and Brain Surgery
Ferrier, Frontal Localization, and Gage
The Criticisms of Frontal Localization
Starr's Cases Reconsidered
Gage as Exemplar
Conclusion
Notes
11 Gage and Surgery for the Psyche
Surgery for Insanity
Radical Resection as a Basis for Psychosurgery
Animal Experiments on Frontal Ablation
Moniz and Frontal Surgery for Psychoses
The Histories of Psychosurgery
Conclusion
Notes
12 Gage, Inhibition, and Thought
Inhibition in Physiology
Inhibition in Psychology
The Fate of Ferrier's Inhibitory Thesis
Conclusion
A Digression on Bain, Ferrier, and Freud
Phineas Gage and Sigmund Freud
Notes
13 The Popular Stories
Gage in the Lore of the Williams Family
Semifiction
Fiction
Folklore and Popular Culture
Newspaper Stories
Science, Newspapers, and the Warren
Conclusion
Notes
14 The Scientific Stories
Gage in the Physiological Literature
Gage in Early Textbooks of Psychology
Gage in the Contemporary Literature
Functions for Interpreting Gage
The Bases of the Errors
Harlow as Frontal Lobe Theoretician
Conclusion
Notes
15 The Hidden Portrait
The Harlow Family
Life in Woburn
The Obscure Country Physician
Notes
16 A Realistic Conclusion
Gage Achieves Fame
Phineas Gage 150 Years On
Notes
Appendix A: Facsimiles of the Gage Papers
Appendix B: A Collation of Notes and Other Material on the Case
Appendix C: The Statement of Walton A. Green
Appendix D: Ferrier's Letters to Bowditch about Gage
Appendix E: The CT Scans of Phineas Gage's Skull
Appendix F: Harlow's Presentations to the Middlesex East District
Medical Society
Appendix G: Lineages of Phineas Gage and John Martyn Harlow
Appendix H: The Sources Searched
References
Index