Being Brains - Making the Cerebral Subject

Fernando Vidal (Author)
Fernando Vidal is Research Professor of ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at the Medical Anthropology Research Center, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain.
Francisco Ortega (Author)
Francisco Ortega is Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine and Research Coordinator of the Rio Center for Global Health at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also Visiting Professor at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King¿s College, London.

List of contents

To Begin With | 1

1. Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject | 13

2. Disciplines of the Neuro | 58

3. Cerebralizing Distress | 130

4. Brains on Screen and Paper | 189

"Up for Grabs" | 227

Acknowledgments | 233

Notes | 235

Bibliography | 243

Index | 305

About the author

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

Summary

Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.

Product details

• Authors: Francisco Ortega, Fernando Vidal, Fernando Ortega Vidal, Fernando/ Ortega Vidal
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780823276073
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7607-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Forms of Living (FUP); Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day