Off with Your Heads: Isolated Organs in Early Soviet Science and Fiction, by Krementsov

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In short, Being Brains approaches the neuro as a 'cultural resource' [...] We have drawn inspiration from Nicolai Krementsov’s discussion of biology as a cultural resource in his book on the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science (Krementsov 2014, 187–193).


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Nikolai Krementsov is professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Techn...
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