He is the author of the forthcoming book The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (In Vivo: Cultural Mediations of Biomedicine, University of Washington Press), as well as several edited volumes and over sixty articles, chapters, and reviews. Brain received his degrees from Berkeley (BA, Philosophy), University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA, History of Science), and UCLA (PhD, History). He has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science-Berlin, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Before coming to UBC, Brain was an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University.