Table of Contents

1: Introduction and Overview
2: From the Beginnings to the Cell Theory
3: Do Nerve Cells Belong in the Cell Theory?
4: Nerve Cells or Nerve Nets?
5: Kolliker Gives In
6: Support Builds for Networks
7: The Nerve Cell Studies of Freud
8: The Revolutionary Method Of Golgi
9: A Neuron Theory Takes Form: His, Forel, Nansen
10: Ramon Y Cajal: The Shock of Recognition
11: The Early Discoveries of Cajal
12: The Laws of Cajal
13: Joining the Mainstream
14: The Neuron Doctrine
15: The Law of Dynamic Polarization
16: Controversy
17: The Synapse and the Growth Cone
18: Forging a Consensus
19: Confrontation in Stockholm
20: Modern Revisions of the Neuron Doctrines

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"Shepherd has done the field of neuroscience a favor. . . .[He] provides an excellent case history of how science works at a personal, as well as scientific, level. . . .Well written and well illustrated, with a full set of references. Valuable to neuroscientists and historians of science, advanced undergraduates and up." --Choice