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Isis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 819-820
Author(s):  
Joelle M. Abi-Rached
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cerebral Subject

The history of the brain and mind sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Alfred Freeborn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
History Of Neuroscience ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The Neurosciences ◽  
Cerebral Subject ◽  
The Brain ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

This review article critically surveys the following literature by placing it under the historiographical banner of ‘the history of the brain and mind sciences’: Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017); Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); Stephen Casper and Delia Gavrus (eds), The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017); Jonna Brenninkmeijer, Neurotechnologies of the Self: Mind, Brain and Subjectivity (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). This framework highlights contemporary attempts to historicize the integrative project of neuroscience and set the correct limits to interdisciplinary collaboration. While attempts to critically engage with the ‘neuro’ rhetoric of contemporary neuroscientists can seem at odds with historians seeking to write the history of neuroscience from the margins, it is argued that together these two projects represent a positive historiographical direction for the history of the neurosciences after the decade of the brain.

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