Yvan Prkachin, PhD

Writing

Publications (Peer Reviewed)

“The Sleeping Beauty of the Brain: Memory, MIT, Montreal, and the Origins of Neuroscience," Isis (forthcoming 2020).

Reviews

Tara H. Abraham. Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016.
The British Journal for the History of Science, 51(2), 313-314.

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Katja Guenther. Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro-disciplines. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
The British Journal for the History of Science, 50(1), 162-164.

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Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject, by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega.
Nuncius 33, no. 3 (2018): 657-660.

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William Feindel and Richard Leblanc. The Wounded Brain Healed: The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 26, no. 4 (2017): 431–33.

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Dan Malleck, When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws.”
Left History Vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016): 126–28.

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