AHP readers may be interested in Somatospere’s recent book forum discussion of Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega’s Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (discussed previously on AHP here). The discussion includes the following contributions:
Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject
Elizabeth Lunbeck
Harvard University
All of the Other Brains
Chloe Silverman
Drexel University
Historicizing the Brain
Martyn Pickersgill
University of Edinburgh
Knowledge about the Brain and Societal Interests
Frank W. Stahnisch
University of Calgary
A Reply:
The Neuro: Modernity, Community, and Critique
Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega