Chemical revolution: getting high and losing your head
Electric fluids and animal spirits: Galvanism, Voltaic piles, electrochemistry and the start of a new era
The right stuff: vitalism, spontaneous generation and the meaning of "life"
Of man and monster: Frankenstein and the science of the mind
Anatomy of horror: dissection, murder and resurrection in the Romantic Era
To the ends of the Earth: polar exploration and the frozen wastes
Before and after: the painful birth and dreadful afterlife of Frankenstein and his monster.