Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject

A Stone in a Spaghetti Bowl: The Biological and Metaphorical Brain in Neuro-Oncology, by Sky Gross

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Yet, again, this does not mean that brainhood is hegemonic. For example, on the basis of ethnographic research in a neuro-oncology clinic, the sociologist of science Sky Gross (2011) shows that while most brain tumor patients admit that the brain is the seat of 'who they are,' they tend to consider it as just another diseased organ.

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Self-Help, by Samuel Smiles

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