title: [Soul and brain].
abstract: After an overview of Medieval and Modern World thought on the questions of relations between the soul and the brain, the author presents the ideas--mostly representative of the majority of medical thinking--of two medical authors from the end of the XIX and beginning of the XX centuries: Paul Flechsig and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Both support the idea that research into the brain may prove to be the principal resource for the construction of a scientific theory on the soul. Brain research would therefore result in the rational belief in the inmortality of the soul and the rational knowledge and government of Man's psychic life.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Historia de la Medicina, Departamento de Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, UCM.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lain Entralgo
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Alma y cerebro.