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Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity
History of the human sciences, 2009-02, Vol.22 (1), p.5-36
[Peer Reviewed Journal]
Copyright Sage Publications Ltd. Feb 2009 ;ISSN: 0952-6951 ;EISSN: 1461-720X ;DOI: 10.1177/0952695108099133 ;PMID: 19860032 ;CODEN: HHSCEO
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Title:
Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity
Author:
Vidal, Fernando
Subjects:
Anatomy - education
;
Anatomy - history
;
Anthropology - education
;
Anthropology - history
;
Art - history
;
Biological Psychiatry - education
;
Biological Psychiatry - history
;
Brain
;
Brain - physiology
;
Cognition
;
Cultural anthropology
;
Cultural Characteristics
;
Culture
;
History of medicine
;
History, 20th Century
;
Human Body
;
Human Characteristics
;
Ideology
;
Modernism
;
Modernity
;
Neurology
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Neurology - education
;
Neurology - history
;
Neuronal Plasticity - physiology
;
Neurosciences - education
;
Neurosciences - history
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Ontology
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Phrenology - history
;
Self Concept
;
Social Change - history
Is Part Of:
History of the human sciences, 2009-02, Vol.22 (1), p.5-36
Description:
If personhood is the quality or condition of being an individual person, brainhood could name the quality or condition of being a brain. This ontological quality would define the `cerebral subject' that has, at least in industrialized and highly medicalized societies, gained numerous social inscriptions since the mid-20th century. This article explores the historical development of brainhood. It suggests that the brain is necessarily the location of the `modern self', and that, consequently, the cerebral subject is the anthropological figure inherent to modernity (at least insofar as modernity gives supreme value to the individual as autonomous agent of choice and initiative). It further argues that the ideology of brainhood impelled neuroscientific investigation much more than it resulted from it, and sketches how an expanding constellation of neurocultural discourses and practices embodies and sustains that ideology.
Publisher:
London, England: SAGE Publications
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISSN: 0952-6951
EISSN: 1461-720X
DOI: 10.1177/0952695108099133
PMID: 19860032
CODEN: HHSCEO
Source:
MEDLINE
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