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Dr Chris Smith

 

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Chris Smith holds degrees from Birmingham University (BSc: Zoology), London University (BSc: Maths/Physics), Edinburgh University (PG Diploma: Biophysics) and Aston University (PhD: Neuroscience). His academic career has been at Aston University where he was successively Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Senior Tutor (Biological Sciences), twice Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Science (1987-9; 1989-90), Dean of Faculty of Science (1990-1) and, finally, Dean of Faculty of Life and Health Sciences (1991-4). He retired from full time employment in 1996 and has since been Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Vision Sciences.

Chris is a Member of the British Biophysical Society; Member of the British Neuroscience Association; Fellow of the Institute of Biology; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Millennium Fellow; founding Member of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences where he was President (1998-9); Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) where he was honorary secretary of the Anthropology/Archaeology section (1984-92) and Chair of the Birmingham Branch (2002- continuing); Member of the Council of the Institute of Biology (2001-5) and Chair of the West Midlands Branch (1999-2003); Chair of the Erasmus Darwin Bicentennial Committee (1999-2002). In 2005 he was honoured with the lifetime achievement award from the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. BOOKS

  • The Architecture of the Body, Faber and Faber, London, 1964 (244pp.) American edition, 1965; Dutch edition, 1966
  • Molecular Biology: a Structural Approach: Faber and Faber, London, 1968 (404pp.) American edition, 1968; Italian edition, 1969; Spanish edition, 1969; Faber paper covered edition, 1971; Second Italian edition, 1975
  • The Brain: towards and understanding, Faber and Faber, London, 1970 (392pp.) American edition, 1970; Spanish edition, 1971; American (paper covered) edition, 1972
  • The Problem of Life: An Essay in the Origins of Biological Thought, Macmillan, London, 1976 (xxiv + 343pp.) American edition: 1977; Spanish edition: 1978Japanese edition: 1978
  • Elements of Molecular Neurobiology, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore; John Wiley & Sons, 1989; (xii + 525pp.). Updated reprint, 1990; Reprinted, 1993; Reprinted,1995; Japanese edition, 1994
  • Elements of Molecular Neurobiology, Second edition, March 1996 (xii + 522) Updated reprint, November 1996; Reprinted, July 1997; Reprinted, November 2001
  • Elements of Molecular Neurobiology: Instruction Manual (with Richard Leuchtag), 1997 (vi + 50pp.)
  • Biology of Sensory Systems , Chichester, New York, Weinheim, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore; John Wiley & Sons, February 2000 (x + 445pp.) Russian edition, 2005
  • Elements of Molecular Neurobiology, third edition, Chichester, Hoboken, NJ, San Francisco, CA, Weinheim, Australia, Singapore, Canada, September 2002 (xiv + 613 pp.) ebook edition: 2003
  • A Short History of the Hard Problem (in preparation)

B. EDITED BOOKS

  • Trepanation: Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger and C.U.M.Smith Swets and Zeitlinger, 2003
  • The Genius of Erasmus Darwin, C.U.M.Smith and Robert Arnott, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
  • Mind, Brain and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth Century Neuroscience, Harry Whitaker, C.U.M.Smith, and Stanley Finger, Springer Publishing (under contract)

C. PAPERS AND CHAPTERS

  1. Smith, C.U.M., 1958, 'Zoology and technological education', Adult Education, 30, 302-7
  2. Smith, C.U.M., 1958, 'Ambiguities in some key zoological words', School Science Review, 40, 140-4
  3. Haggis, G.H. and C.U.M. Smith, 1964, 'A comparative study of fibrin using three different techniques', Proc. third European Regional Conference on electron Microscopy, 215
  4. Smith, C.U.M., 1968, 'Discrimination between Heavy Water and Water by the Mouse', Nature, 217, 760-1
  5. Smith, C.U.M. , K. Deutsch and A.J. Matty, 1968, 'The effect of heavy water on some tissues of the mouse', Proc. Fourth European Regional Conference on Electron Microscopy, 229
  6. Smith, C.U.M., 1978, 'Charles Darwin, the origin of consciousness and panpsychism', J. Hist. Biol., 11, 245-267
  7. Smith , C.U.M., 1981, 'Don Juan and the vision of Vision', Perception, 10, 435-453
  8. Smith, C.U.M., 1982, 'Evolution and the Problem of Mind: 1, Herbert Spencer', J. Hist. Biol., 15, 55-82 also in J.Offer.ed., 2000, Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments, London: Routledge
  9. Smith, C.U.M., 1982, 'Evolution and the Problem of Mind: 2, John Hughlings Jackson', J. Hist. Biol., 15, 241-262
  10. Smith, C.U.M., 1983, ' Herbert Spencer's Epigenetic Epistemology', Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 14, 1-22
  11. Smith, C.U.M., 1983, ' Anatomical concepts and the problem of mind', J. Social Biol.Struct., 6, 381-392
  12. .Smith, C.U.M., 1983, 'The earliest biochemistry', Trends in Biochem, Sci,, 6, 193-195
  13. Smith, C.U.M., 1986, 'Friedrich Nietzsche's Biological Epistemics', J. Social Biol. Struct,, 9, 375-388
  14. Myers, D., R.A. Armstrong and C.U.M. Smith, 1987, 'Pentoxifylline and the behavIour of 29-month female mice ', Neurosci. Letters,, 29, S105
  15. Smith, C.U.M., 1987, 'David Hartley's Newtonian Neuropsychology, J. Hist. Behav. Sci., 23, 87-101
  16. Armstrong, R.A., D. Myers, C. U.M. Smith and R.A. Carter, 1987, 'Size class frequency distributions of senile plaques in post-mortem brains of five patients with SDAT', Brain Res.Ass., Southampton
  17. Smith, C.U.M., 1987, '"Clever beasts who invented knowing", Nietzsche's evolutionary biology of knowledge', Biology and Philosophy, 2, 1-27
  18. Myers, D., R.A. Armstrong, C.U.M. Smith, A.M. Prior, R.A.Carter, 1987, 'Spatial arrangement patterns of senile plaques in post-mortem SDAT brains', Brain Res. Ass., Southampton
  19. Myers, D., R.A. Armstrong, C.U.M.Smith and R.A. Carter, 1987, 'Are there two distinct populations of cored senile plaques in SDAT?' Brain Res.Ass., Southampton
  20. Smith, C.U.M., 1988, '"Send reinforcements we're going to advance": invited response to a target article by David Hull "A mechanism and its metaphysics: an evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science"', Biology and Philosophy, 3, 214-217
  21. Myers D., R.A. Armstrong , C.U.M.Smith and R.A. Carter, 1988, "The spatial arrangement patterns of senile plaques in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT)" Neurosci. Res. Comm., 2 , 99-106
  22. Smith, C.U.M., 1988, 'La mente ha bisogno di significato, Una prospecttiva biologica', Intersezione: Rivista di storia della Idee', 8, 301-309
  23. Smith, C.U.M., 1988, 'Biology and Psychiatry', J. Roy. Soc. Med. , 81, 439-444
  24. Smith, C.U.M., 1989, "Evolution, Epistemology and Visual science' in Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology (ed.K.Hahlweg and C.A. Hooker), New York: SUNY Press, pp, 527-544
  25. Myers, D., R.A. Armstrong and C.U.M.Smith , 1989, 'Chronic administration of an aluminium-enriched diet impairs spatial orientation in a sub-group of C57BL6 female mice' Neurosci. Letters, 32, S53
  26. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M. Smith, 1989, 'Further studies on the patterns of senile plaques in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) with a hypothesis on the colonisation of the cortex", Neurosci. Res. Comm., 4, 17-23
  27. Abstracted in Parkinson/Alzheimer Digest, 7, 19-20 (1989)
  28. Smith, C.U.M., 1989, 'Neurology and mental atomism: some continuities and discontinuities' in Neuroscience Across the Centuries, ed. F.C. Rose, London/Tokyo: Smith-Gordon-Nishimura, pp, 49-57
  29. Myers, D., R.A. Armstrong and C.U.M.Smith, 1990, 'Neurohistological consequences of a long-term diet enriched in aluminium and reduced in Ca2+- Mg 2+ in C57BL6 female mice', Neurosci. Letters, 38, S73
  30. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M. Smith, 1990, 'The relationship between the spatial pattern of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease', Neurosci. Res. Comm., 7, 105-111
  31. Smith, C.U.M., 1990, 'The citadel itself: essay review of Darwin and the emergence of evoutionary theories of mind and behaviour', Biology/History, 3, 39-46
  32. Smith, C.U.M., 1991, 'Brain wars in England: Richard Owen's lost cause', AAAS 1991: abstracts: p.122
  33. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers, C.U.M, Smith, N.Cairns and P.J. Luthert, 1991 'Alzheimer's disease: the relationship between the density of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and A4 protein in human patients', Neurosci. Letters, 123, 141-143
  34. Smith C.U.M., 1991, "The evolution of objectivity': WESScom., J. Washington Evol. Systems Soc., 1 , 3-7
  35. Smith, C.U.M., 1991, 'Kant and Darwin' , J. Social Biol. Struct., 14 , 35 -50
  36. Armstrong, R.A.., D. Myers and C.U.M. Smith, 1991, 'Alzheimer's disease; size class frequency distribution of senile plaques: does this indicate when a brain tissue was affected?' Neurosci. Letters, 127, 223-26
  37. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M. Smith, 1991, 'Distribution of A4 protein and neurofibrillary change in Alzheimer's disease', ENA-EBBS-BRA congress, Cambridge, 1991: abstract in European J. of Neurosci., Supple, 4, 3114
  38. Armstrong, R.A., D. Myers, C.U.M. Smith, N.Cairns, and P.J.Luthbert, 1992, 'The spatial pattern of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and A4 deposits in Alzheimer's disease', Neurosci. Res. Comm., 10, 27-33
  39. Smith, C.U.M., 1992, "The Hippopotamus Test: a controversy in nineteenth-century brain science', Cogito: Supplement to the Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 1, 69-74
  40. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M. Smith, 1992, 'Principal components analysis of Alzheimer's disease based on neuropathological data: a study of 79 patients', Neurosci. Letters, 42, S38
  41. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M, Smith, 1992, 'The distribution of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and beta-A4 deposits in the hippocampus in Alzheimer's Disease', Neurosci. Res.Comm., 10, 87-94
  42. Smith, C.U.M., 1992, 'Zarathustra's evolutionary epistemology', J. Social Evol. Systems, 15, 75-85
  43. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M. Smith, 1992, 'Alzheimer's disease: size class frequency distributions of senile plaques: Do they indicate when a brain tissue was affected', Parkinson/Alzheimer Digest, 24-25
  44. Smith, C.U.M. , 1992, 'A century of cortical architectonics', J. Hist. Neurosci, 1, 201-218
  45. Smith, C.U.M., 1992, "Richard Owen: eminent Victorian', Biologist,, 39, 212-216
  46. Smith, C.U.M., 1992, 'The dissolution of the brain and the disappearance of mind', WESScom: Journal of the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, 2, 293-2
  47. Syed, A., R.A. Armstrong and C.U.M.Smith , 1993 'Large diameter optic nerve fibres are depleted in Alzheimer's disease', Ophth. Physiol. Optics, 13, 104
  48. Smith, C.U.M, 1993, Evolutionary biology and psychiatry' Brit. J. Psych., 162, 149-153
  49. Bach-y-Rita, P. and C.U.M. Smith, 1993 'Comparative efficiency of volume and synaptic transmission in the coerulean system: relevance to neurologic rehabilitation', Scand. J.Rehabilitat. Med., 25, 3-6
  50. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1993, 'The spatial patterns of plaques and tangles in Alzheimer's disease do not support the cascade hypothesis', Dementia, 4, 16-20
  51. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1993, 'The ratio of diffuse to mature beta/A4 deposits in Alzheimer's disease varies in cases with and without pronounced congophilic angiopathy', Dementia, 4, 251-255
  52. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1993, 'The density of mature beta/A4 deposits is enhanced in Alzheimer's disease cases with pronounced congophilic angiopathy', Brain Res. Assoc. Abstr., 10, 24
  53. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1993, 'The spatial patterns of beta/A4 subtypes in Alzheimer's disease', Acta Neuropathologica, 86, 36-41
  54. Smith, C.U.M., 1993, 'Use and abuse of metaphor in the history of brain science, J.Hist.Neurosci., 2, 283-251
  55. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1993, 'The size-frequency distributions of beta/A4 subtypes in Alzheimer disease', Neurosci. Res. Comm., 13, 9-17
  56. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1993, 'The spatial patterns of plaques and tangles in Alzheimer's disease do not support the 'cascade' hypothesis', Parkinson/Alzheimer Digest, 6, 22-23
  57. Smith, C.U.M., 1994, 'Subjectivity in a Darwinian world', Soc. Neurosci. Bull., 7, 1-6
  58. Syed, A.B., R.A.Armstrong and C.U.M.Smith, 1994, 'The incidence of corpora amylacea (CA) in the optic nerve of patients with Alzheimer's disease', Brain Res. Assoc. Abstr., 11, 38
  59. Smith, C.U.M., 1994, 'Brain complexity: a biologist's view' in Complex Systems: Mechanism of adaptation, Netherlands: IOS Press: pp. 93-100
  60. also at http://www.csu.edu.au/ci/vol2/smith_re/smith_re.html
  61. Smith, C.U.M., 1994, 'Esistenzialismo e neurobiologia: complementarita', Intersezione: Rivista di storia della idee, 14, 243-257
  62. Smith, C.U.M, 1994 'Homo sapiens and human being',
  63. Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems , 17, 413-434
  64. Armstrong, R.A. and C.U.M.Smith, 1994, b-amyloid (b/A4) deposition in the medial temporal lobe in Down's syndrome: efects of brain region and patient age', Neurobiology of Disease, 1, 139-144
  65. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers and C.U.M.Smith, 1995, 'What determines the size frequency of b - amyloid (Ab) deposits in Alzheimer's disease patients?', Neuroscience Letters, 187, 13-16
  66. Smith, C.U.M. , 1995, 'Membrane signaling systems', in Anthony Lee, ed., Biomembranes, vol.1: General Principles, Greenwich,Ct: JAI Press, pp.245-270
  67. Smith, C.U.M., 1996. 'Sherrington's legacy: evolution of the concept of the synapse: 1896-1996', J.Hist Neurosci., 5, 43-55
  68. Smith, C.U.M., 1996, Evolution and the "hard problem"', Consc. Res. Abstracts, p.47
  69. Armstrong, R.A., N.J.Cairns, D.Myers, C.U.M.Smith, P.L.Lantos and M.N.Rossor, 1996, "A comparison of b-amyloid (Ab) deposition in the medial temporal lobe in sporadic Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome and normal elderly brains', Neurodegeneration, 5, 35-41
  70. Smith, C.U.M., 1997, '1997: Centenary of the synapse', Endeavour, 21, 49-51
  71. Armstrong, R.A., D.Myers, C.U.M.Smith, 1997, 'Factors determining the size frequency distribution of b-amyloid (Ab) depositis in Alzheimer's disease', Experimental Neurology, 145, 574-579
  72. Smith, C.U.M., 1997, 'Huxley and Neuroscience', Abstracts of XXth Congress in History of Neuroscience, Li�ge
  73. 70.Smith .C.U.M., 1997, 'Worlds in Collision: Richard Owen and Thomas Henry Huxley on the Brain ', Science in Context, 10, 343-365
  74. Smith, C.U.M., 1998, 'Descartes' visit to the town library, or how Augustinian is Descartes' neurophysiology', Journal of the History of the Neurociences, 7, 70
  75. Smith, C.U.M. 1998 'Neurowords 4: Nerve Cell Body, Perikaryon, Cyton' Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 7, 156-7
  76. Smith, C.U.M., 1998,, 'Neurognostics, 4: The Strange Case of Hippopotamuses in the Brain', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 7, 50; 75
  77. Smith, C.U.M, 1998, 'Descartes' pineal neuropsychology', Brain and Cognition., 36, 57-72
  78. also in European Pineal Society News, 40, 11-26 (1999)
  79. Smith, C.U.M, 1998, ‘Owen and Huxley: Unfinished business’, Endeavour, 22, 110-113
  80. Smith, C.U.M. 1998 'Descartes' visit to the Town Library: or how Augustinian is Descartes' neurophysiology?', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 7, 93-100
  81. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, 'Electrical excitability' chapter in Bittar and Bittar, eds., Principles of Medical Biology, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press
  82. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, 'Synaptic transmission', chapter in Bittar and Bittar, eds., Principles of Medical Biology, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press
  83. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, 'The neuromuscular junction', chapter in Bittar and Bittar, eds., Principles of Medical Biology, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press
  84. Smith, C.U.M., 1999 'Peripheral transduction' chapter in Bittar and Bittar eds., Principles of Medical Sciences, Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press
  85. Smith, C.U.M.. 1999, 'Coleridge's "Theory of Life", Journal of the History of Biology, 32, 31-50..
  86. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, 'The comparative approach: giant fibres' in F.Clifford-Rose, ed., A Short History of Neurology, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp.75-87
  87. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, 'Descartes and modern neuroscience', Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 42, 357-371
  88. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, 'Ren� revisited: The neurophilosophy of John Carew Eccles', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 8, 93
  89. Smith , C.U.M., 1999, '350th Anniversary of Passions de l'Ame', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 8, 221-6
  90. Smith, C.U.M. , 1999, 'T.H.Huxley and Neuroscience', Physis.: Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, XXXVI, 355-365; also, 2003, Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of the History of Science, Vol. XI, Biological and Medical Sciences, Beginjhof 67: Brepols
  91. Smith, C.U.M., 1999, Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Kingsley in the 1860s: Irreconcilable friends' in John Ray and his successors - the clergyman as biologist, Essex: Braintree, pp.152-165
  92. Syed, A.B., R.A.Armstrong and C.U.M.Smith, 2000, Quantification of axonal loss in Alzheimer's Disease: an image analysis study', Alzheimer's reports, 3, 19-24
  93. 89.Smith, C.U.M., 2000, 'Crossing boundaries: making connections': Presidential address to International Society for the History of the Neurociences, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 9, 125-32
  94. Smith, C.U.M., 2000, 'The molecular turn', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 9, 145
  95. Smith, C.U.M., 2000, 'Into the Eighties' in Brian J. Ford, ed., Institute of Biology: the First Fifty Years , London: Institute of Biology, pp.77-99
  96. Smith, C.U.M., 2000, ‘Evolutionary biology and the “hard problem”’, Evolution and Cognition, 6, 162-7
  97. Smith, C.U.M., 2000, 'Brodmann's areas' in Koehler, P.J., Bruyn, G.W., Arts, N.M.J, Pearce, J.M.S., eds, Common Eponyms in Neurological Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.9-14
  98. Smith, C.U.M., 2001, 'The concept of cortical columns', Brain and Cognition, 46, 10-11
  99. Smith, C.U.M., 2001, 'A concept in John Hughlings Jackson: 'The physiological bottom of the mind', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 10, 251
  100. Smith, C.U.M., 2001, ‘Renatus renatus: the neurophysiology of John Carew Eccles’, Brain and Cognition, 46, 364-72
  101. Smith, C.U.M., 2002, 'The Genius of Erasmus Darwin, Endeavour, 26, 45-6
  102. Smith, C.U.M., 2002, ‘Jean Offray de la Mettrie: 1709-1751’, J.Hist.Neurosci., 11, 110-24
  103. Smith, C.U.M., 2002, 'The Genius of Erasmus Darwin', Biobits (Sept), 13
  104. Smith, C.U.M., 2002, 'All from fibres: Erasmus Darwin's neuroscience', Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 11, 414-5
  105. Smith, C.U.M., 2002, 'Deep time and the brain: the message of the molecules', in R.Gardner and A.Cory,eds., The Neuroethology of Paul MacLean: convergences and frontiers, Greenwood-Praeger, pp.31-44
  106. Smith, C.U.M., 2003, DNA and the origins of a molecular neuroscience', Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, ed. John T.E. Richardson, Uxbridge: Brunel University Press, p.40
  107. Smith, C.U.M., 2004, 'Musical instruments as metaphors in brain science: From Ren� Descartes to John Hughlings Jackson', in F. Clifford Rose, ed., Neurology of the Arts, London: Imperial College Press
  108. Smith, C.U.M. ,2004, 'Ren� Descartes and Julien Offray de la Mettrie and the 'problem of mind' in J.J.Saldana, ed., Proceedings of XXIst International Congress of History of Science (CD), 519-532
  109. Smith, C.U.M., 2005, 'All from fibres': Erasmus Darwin's evolutionary psychobiology', in The Genius of Erasmus Darwin, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Co., pp.133-43
  110. Smith, C.U.M., 2005, Evolutionary Neurobiology and aesthetics’, Perspectives in Medicine and Biology, 48, 17-3
  111. Smith, C.U.M. , 2005, ‘Erasmus Darwin: Physician, Inventor, Biologist, Poet’, J.Med.Biogr., 13, 1-2
  112. Smith, C.U.M., 2005, How the Modern World Began: Stephen Gaukroger’s ‘Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy’, J.Hist.Neurosci., 14, 57-63
  113. Syed, A.B., R.A.Armstrong and C.U.M.Smith, 2005, ‘A quantitative analysis of optic nerve axons in elderly control subjects and patients with Alzheimer’s Disease’ Folia Neuropathol., 43, 1-6
  114. Smith, C.U.M., 2005, The Role of �migr�s, philosophy and physics in 20th century biology and neurobiology, Proceedings of XXII Congress of the History of Science, Beijing,July, 2005, p.147
  115. Smith, C.U.M. (2005) ‘The origins of molecular neurobiology: the role of the physicists’, J.Hist.Neurosci., 14, 214-29
  116. Smith, C.U.M. (in press) ‘Evolutionary neurobiology and art’, International Review of Neurobiology
  117. Smith, C.U.M. (submitted) ‘The ‘hard problem’ and the first generation of quantum physicists’, Brain and Cognition
  118. Smith, C.U.M. (invited, in preparation) ‘The long eighteenth century: when mind escaped the cells’, in WSF eds., Brain, Mind and Medicine: essays in eighteenth century neuroscience
  119. Smith, C.U.M. (in preparation) ‘From animal spirits to animal electricity’
  120. Smith, C.U.M. (in preparation) ‘Vitalism, materialism and the rise of Naturphilosophie’ in Whitaker, Smith, Finger, eds., Brain, Mind and Medicine: essays in eighteenth century neuroscience
  121. Smith, C.U.M., (invited, in preparation) ‘18th century developments’, Boller F, Tyler K and Finger, S eds., History of Neurology, Elsevier
  122. Smith, C.U.M., (invited, in preparation) ‘Visual thinking in recent neuroscience’, JHN special arts edition
  123. Smith, C.U.M., (invited, in preparation), ‘�migr�s, philosophy and physics at the origin of molecular neurobiology’ in Hoppe, ed., International Networks in the Life Sciences from the 18th to 20th Centuries
  124. Smith, C.U.M. (invited, in preparation): Quantum theory and the synapse (for J.Neuroquantology)

D. PAPERS GIVEN AT MEETINGS

  • "Darwin and panpsychism": invited seminar at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Cambridge, November, 1976
  • "Darwin and the problem of mind" invited seminar at Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Chelsea College, March, 1977
  • "Undergraduate courses in The Biology of Man and his Environment at the University of Aston in Birmingham", European Conference on Environmental Education: Environment and Society - Educational Priorities, London, April 1977
  • "Mental atomism in nineteenth century neurology", Wellcome Symposium on the History of Medicine: The British contribution to the neurosciences, London, November, 1983
  • "A short history of the triune brain", Inaugural meeting of the History of Biology group of the Institute of Biology, London, November, 1986
  • "Epistemology and visual science",International Conference on Evolutionary Epistemology, Newcastle, NSW, Austrialia, July 1987
  • "Hippopotamuses in the brain": Second European Conference in the History of Neurology, Venice/Padua, April 1989
  • "Metaphors and similes in the History of Brain Science', International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, London, Ontario, June 1989
  • "Ideas about mind-brain: historical, philosophical, scientific" invited presentation at Friday evening discourse at theRoyal Institution Albermarle Street, March 1990
  • 'The molecular approach to neurodevelopment and its disorders': Inaugural meeting of the Little Foundation , CIBA Foundation, London, January, 1991
  • "Brain wars in England: Richard Owen's Lost Cause", Washington, DC., meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February, 1991
  • 'Visual thinking and recent neuroscience', International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Study of Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, July 1991
  • 'Cortical architectonics: historical perspectives", Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, October, 1991
  • 'Imaging mind: what has become of Huxley's "mechanical equivalent of consciousness', International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Study of Biology, Brandeis, Boston, Mass., July 199
  • 'Coleridge's "Theory of Life"', Iinternational Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Study of Biology, Brandeis, Boston, Mass., July 1993
  • 'Sherrington's legacy: Evolution of the concept of the synapse, 1894-1994', First International Congress on the History of the Neurosciences, London, May 1994
  • 'Complexity of the brain: a biologist's view', Conference on Complexity in man-made and natural systems, Rockhampton, University of Central Queensland, September, 1994
  • 'Sir Charles Bell and Charles Darwin on the expression of the emotions: Was there a paradigm shift?' Inaugural Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences,Montreal, May, 1995
  • 'Existentialism and neurobiology', contribution to short course in Neurophilosophy, Institute of Neurology, Queens Square, London, May 1995
  • 'Brain complexity and consciousness' , International Society for the History, Social Study and Philosophy of Biology, Louvain July 1995
  • 'Evolution and the hard problem: Are the Cartesian categories Darwinian algorithms?', Toward a Science of Consciousness: Tucson ll, Tucson, April 1996
  • 'Descartes' two pineal neuropsychologies', First Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neuroscience’s, Buffalo, May, 1996
  • 'Descartes and modern neuroscience', First Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Buffalo, May, 1996
  • 'Descartes' visit to the town library: or how Augustinian is Descartes' neurophysiology?': Second Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Leiden, June, 1997
  • 'The brain a machine?' and organiser of symposium 'Images of the brain in history', International Society for History, Social Study and Philosophy of Biology Seattle, July, 1997
  • 'Huxley and Neuroscience', Symposium on Nineteenth Century Neuroscience at XXth International Congress on the History of Science, Li�ge, July 199
  • 'Cortical architectonics and qualia: the problem of the undifferentiated substratum, Toward a science of consciousness, Tucson, April /May, 1998
  • 'The comparative approach: giant fibres' Symposium on the British contribution to the Neurosciences, London, May 1998
  • 'Ren� revisited: the neurophilosophy of John Carew Eccles' Third meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Annapolis, June 1998
  • 'Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Kingsley in the 1860s: Irreconcilable friends', John Ray Conference, Braintree, March, 1999
  • 'Short History of the Triune Brain', Oaxaca, Mexico, IS/HSSPB, July, 1999
  • 'Deep time and the brain: the message of the molecules'. MacLean Festschrift, Boston, Mass., July, 1999
  • 'The molecular turn', Zurich, ISHN, September 1999
  • 'Crossing boundaries: making connections': Presidential address to International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Lausanne, September, 1999
  • 'Evolution and the "hard problem"', Vienna/Altenberg, January, 12/13; 2000
  • 'Probing the frontiers of neuroscience: techniques, metaphors, implications', Cuernavaca, 17/18 February, 2000.
  • 'A concept in Hughlings Jackson: "The Physiological bottom of the mind"', ISHN, Providence, Rhode Island, June 2000
  • 'The concept of cortical columns', TENNET, Montreal: June 2000
  • 'Musical instruments as metaphors in brain science: from Ren� Descartes to John Hughlings Jackson', Mansell Bequest Symposium, London, April 30, 2001
  • ‘Descartes and la Mettrie on the Brain', ISHN: Cologne, June 4, 2001
  • ’A syllabus in the History of Neuroscience: more questions than answers’, ISHN: Cologne, June 16, 2001
  • ‘Descartes and la Mettrie: two approaches to the 'hard problem', XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, July 13, 2001
  • ‘Images of the cerebral cortex’, ISHPSSB: Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, July 21, 2001
  • 'Philosophy's loss, Neurology's gain: The endeavour of John Hughlings Jackson', Centre for History of Medicine, Birmingham, January, 30, 2002
  • 'Neuroscience and natural theology': Birmingham, March 19, 2002
  • '"All from fibres": Erasmus Darwin's Psychobiology', Erasmus Darwin Bicentenary Conference, Lichfield, April 20, 2002
  • '"All from fibres": Erasmus Darwin's Neurobiology', ISHN, Los Angeles, June, 2002
  • The beginnings of a molecular neuroscience, ISHN: Cumberland Lodge, Windsor (UK), June 2003 (organiser of session)
  • 'The origins of molecular neurobiology: the role of the physicists', IS/HSSPB, Vienna, July 2003 (organiser of session)
  • ‘The long eighteenth century: when mind escaped the cells', TENNET/ISHN: Montreal, June 2004 (co-organiser with Harry Whitaker of TENNET/ISHN bridging session on neuroscience in the 18th century)
  • ‘Evolutionary neurobiology and art’, Mansell Bequest Symposium, London, May, 2005
  • ‘Animal electricity in the long eighteenth century’, ISHN05, July, 2005, St Andrews
  • �migr�s, philosophy and physics at the origin of molecular neurobiology, XXII Congress of the History of Science, Beijing, July, 2005

E. SCHOLARLY BOOK REVIEWS

  • Doctor of Revolution: The Life and Genius of Erasmus Darwin by Desmond King-Hele (London: Faber and Faber, 1977): British Book News (November, 1977)
  • The Man-madeFuture by C.H. Waddington (London; Croom Helm, 1978): British Book News (August, 1978)
  • The Worlds of Patrick Geddes: biologist, town planner, re-educator, peace warrior by Philip Boardman (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978): British Book News (September, 1978)
  • 4. Charles Darwin: a companion by R.B. Freeman (Folkestone: Dawson and Sons, 1978): British Book News (June, 1979)
  • The Beagle Record: selection from the original pictorial records and written accounts of the voyage of HMS Beagle edited by R.D. Keynes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979): British Book News (July 1979)
  • 6. Circadian Rhythms and the Human by D.S. Minors and J.M. Waterhouse (Bristol: Wright and Sons, 1981): British Book News (December, 1981)
  • A Manual of Electroencephalographic Technology by C.D. Binnie, A.J. Rowan and T.H. Gutter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982): British Book News (April, 1982)
  • Divided Visual Field Studies of Cerebral Organisation by J. Graham Beaumount (London/New York: Academic Press, 1982): British Book News (June 1982)
  • The Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst Mayr (Cambridge Mass, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982): Annals of Human Biology, 10, 313-314 (1983)
  • Gametes and Spores: ideas about sexual reproduction, 1750-1914 by John Farley (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Press, 1982): Medical History , 28, 220
  • Just Before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution by J.L. Brooks (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984): Annals of Human Biology, 11, 585-586 (1984)
  • Men and Women: How different are they? by J. Nicholson (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1984): Annals of Human Biology ,12, 193 (1985)
  • Beyond Neo-Darwinism:An introduction to the new evolutionary paradigm edited by Mae Wan Ho and P.T. Saunders (London: Academic press, 1984): Annals of Human Biology, 12, 387-388 (1985)
  • Infanticide: Comparative and evolutionary perspectives edited by G. Haufstater and S. Blaffer Hrdy (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine, 1984): Annals of Human Biology, 12, 566-567 (1985)
  • Genetic Perspectives in Biology and Medicine edited by E.D. Garber (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985): Annals of Human Biology, 13 , 511-512 (1986)
  • Off-Beat Biologist: the autobiography of Alan S. Parkes (Cambridge: the Galton Foundation, 1985): British Book News (June 1986)
  • John Ray (1637-1705) Essex Naturalist by Stuart A. Baldwin (Witham, Essex: Baldwin's Books, 1986): Biologis (December, 1986)
  • Evolution as Entropy: Toward a unified theory of biology by D.R. Brooks and E.O. Wiley (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1986): Annals of Human Biology, 14, 84-85 (1987)
  • The Blind Watchmaker by R. Dawkins (Harlow: Longmans, 1986): Annals of Human Biology, 14, 381-382 (1987)
  • Bioburst: the impact of modern biology on the affairs of man by R.N. Re (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1986): Annals of Human Biology, 14, 470- 471 (1987)
  • The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences edited by S.C. Stearns (Basel/Boston; Birk�user Verlag, 1987): Annals of Human Biology, 15, 318-319 (1988)
  • Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: observations of an evolutionist by Ernst Mayr (Cambridge Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988): Annals of Human Biology, 16, 382-383 (1989)
  • Evolutionary Progress edited by M.H.Nitecki (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988): Annals of Human Biology, 17 , 170-171 (1990)
  • Symbiogenesis: A macro-mechanism of evolution. Progress towards a unified theory of evolution based on studies in cell biology by W.Schwemmler (Berlin/New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1989): Annals of Human Biology, 17, 346-47 (1990)
  • Darwin, Sex and Status: Biological approaches to mind and culture by J.H. Barkow (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989): Annals of Human Biology , 18, 80-81 (1990)
  • Neurobiology of the Inner Retina edited by R. Weiler and N.N. Osborne (Berlin: Springer, 1989): Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 10, 416 (1990)
  • '"The citadel itself", essay review of Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behaviour, by R.J.Richards (Chicago; Chicago University Press: Biology /History, 3, 20-24 (1990)
  • The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, medicine and reform in radical London by A. Desmond (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989): Annals of Human Biology, 18, 181-2 (1991)
  • Oedipus in Evolution by Christopher Badcock (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990): Annals of Human Biology, 18, 273-274 (1991)
  • Evolutionary Stability: Logical and material aspects of a unified theory of biosocial evolution, Gebhard Geiger (Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990): Annals of Human Biology, 19, 91-93 (1992)
  • The New Evolutionary Paradigm: Keynote Volume, edited by Erwin Laszlo (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1991): Annals of Human Biology, 19, 440-441 (1992)
  • Neurons and Networks: An introduction to neuroscience by J.E. Dowling (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1992): Times Higher Educational Supplement, July 1992
  • Introduction to Molecular Neurobiology edited by Z.W. Hall (Sunderland Mass, Sinauer Associates, 1992): Times Higher Educational Supplement (July 1992)
  • Empiricism and Darwin's Science by Fred Wilson (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991): Annals of Human Biology , 20, 83-84 (1993)
  • A History of Regeneration Research: Milestones in the Evolution of a Science edited by Charles E. Dinsmore (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991): Annals of Science, 50, 399-400 (1993)
  • Interactions: The biological context of social systems by Niles Eldredge and Marjorie Grene (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992): Annals of Human Biology , 20, 507- 508 (1993)
  • 'Abroad on a sea of unknowingness' review of Molecules and Mental Illness by S.H.Barondes (New York: Scientific American Library/Freeman, 1993), Times Higher Educational Suplement, October 1993
  • The Evolving Mind, by Ben Goertzel (Langhorne, Pa.: Gordon and Breach, 1993): Annals of Human Biology, 21, 622-624 (1994)
  • 'You are a group of neurons' review of The Astonishing Hypothesis: the scientific search for the soul by Francis Crick (London: Simon and Schuster, 1994), Times Higher Educational Supplement, May, 1994
  • Mental machinery: The origins and consequences of psychological ideas, 1600-1850, by Graham Richards (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992): Philosophical Psychology , 8, 205-209 (1995)
  • The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural history, natural theology and natural selection, 1838-1859 by Dov Ospovat (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995): Annals of Human Biology , 23, 337-8 (1996)
  • A Philosophy of Matter and Mind. A new look at an old major topic in philosophy by G.D.Wassermann, (Avery Press, 1994): History and Philosophy of Life Sciences , 18, 86-7 (1997)
  • Matter and Mind: Imaginative participation in science , by Edelglass, S., G.Maier, H.Gebert and J.Davy, (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1992): History and Philosophy of Life Sciences , 18, 87-8 (1997)
  • Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant, by J.W.Yolton (Cornell University Press, 1996): Journal of the History of the Neurosciences , 8, 296-8 (1999)
  • Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of discovery and Mistaken Identity by A.G.Cairns Smith (Springer Verlag, 1999): Endeavour, 24, 136-7, (2000)
  • Descartes: An intellectual biography, by Stephen Gaukroger(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995); Descartes: His life and thought by Genevi�ve Rodis-Lewis, trs. Jane Marie Todd (Cornell University Press, 1998): Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 9, 317-319 (2000)
  • Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphyscians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, ed. John P. Wright and Paul Potter, Oxford, (Clarendon Press, 2000): Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 12, 123-126 (2003)
  • Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Ren� Descartes, Richard Watson, Boston, Godine, 2002: Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 12, 326 - 328 (2003)

F: LITERATURE REVIEWS

  • C.U.M.Smith (2005): NeurHistAlert, 1. J.Hist.Neurosci., 14, 76-80
  • C.U.M.Smith (2005): NeurHistAlert, 2. J.Hist.Neurosci., 14, 238-42 (2005)
  • C.U.M.Smith (2006): NeurHistAlert, 3. J.Hist.Neurosci., (in press)
  • C.U.M.Smith (in preparation): NeurHistAlert, 4. J.Hist.Neurosci., (in preparation)

G: MISCELLANEOUS

  • 'Genes and Brains'; 'Evolution and the Midlands': Birmingham Post Supplement (November 1996)

Fictions

  • 'Annie' in Penguins in the Orchard, Booth et al., eds., 1998, Stourbridge: Coachhouse Writers, pp.24-6
  • 'Seance', in Sandra Booth et al., ed., Coachlines, 1, 2000, Stourbridge: Coachhouse Writers, pp.26-7
  • 'Autumn Morning', in Robertson et al., eds., 2002, Coachlines, 3, Stourbridge: Coachhouse Writers, pp.13-4
  • ‘Descartes’ last meditation’ in Cardew et al.,eds., 2004, Coachlines 5, Stourbidge: Coachhouse Writers, p.33
  • ‘A Misunderstanding’ in

Plays

  • ‘Brainquest: Hippos in the Brain: Golgi and Cajal at Stockholm; Ren� and Elizabeth’. Performed at Bridgnorth (Theatre on the Steps, 10, 11 March), Wolverhampton (Arena Theatre, 13 March), Birmingham (Crescent Theatre, 17, 18 March), 2000; Imperial College, South Kensington (Creating Sparks Festival), 10,11,12, September, 2000.