Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject

Edwin Smith surgical papyrus

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Some timelines documenting awareness of the link between brain and self go back to the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus (dated ca. 1700 BCE but datable in part to 3000–2500 BCE), which includes reports about twenty-seven cases of head injuries.

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Edwin Smith Papyrus: photograph by the National Library of Medicine

Learn more about the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus at the links below:

International Brain Research Organization site

Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery

You can also read this article by J. Trevor Hughes, published in Nature in 1988:

Hughes, J. Travor. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus: An analysis of the first case reports of spinal...

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17/06/2013

Beyond the Brain, by David Brooks

Beyond the Brain, by David Brooks

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

30/06/1963

Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, by Sidney Shoemaker

Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, by Sidney Shoemaker

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

31/12/1981 (Circa)

Reason, Truth, and History, by Hilary Putnam

Reason, Truth, and History, by Hilary Putnam

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01/04/1981

The Mind’s I, edited by Daniel C. Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter

The Mind’s I, edited by Daniel C. Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter

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01/01/1981 (Circa)

Philosophical Explanations, by Robert Nozick

Philosophical Explanations, by Robert Nozick

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01/01/129 (Circa)01/01/200 (Circa)

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

06/05/2015

The Embodied Brain, by Kiverstein and Miller

The Embodied Brain, by Kiverstein and Miller

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01/05/1993

Exploding the Gene Myth, by Ruth Rubbard and Elijah Wald

Exploding the Gene Myth, by Ruth Rubbard and Elijah Wald

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01/01/2005 (Circa)

The Ethical Brain, by Gazzaniga

The Ethical Brain, by Gazzaniga

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22/12/2011

Émergence du moi cérébral de Théodore Meynert à Antonio Damasio, by Arminjon, Ansermet, and Magistretti

Émergence du moi cérébral de Théodore Meynert à Antonio Damasio, by Arminjon, Ansermet, and Magistretti

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01/09/2007

Can neuroscience be integrated into the DSM-V?, by Steven Hyman

Can neuroscience be integrated into the DSM-V?, by Steven Hyman

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20/03/1989

Quote by James D. Watson

Quote by James D. Watson

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20/10/2004

Completion of the Human Genome Project

Completion of the Human Genome Project

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01/01/2011 (Circa)

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

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

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01/01/2003 (Circa)

Neurochemical Selves, by Nikolas Rose

Neurochemical Selves, by Nikolas Rose

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20/02/2009

Identity, Identification, and the Brain, by Emily Martin

Identity, Identification, and the Brain, by Emily Martin

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01/09/2011

Constituting Neurologic Subjects: Neuroscience, Subjectivity, and the Mundane Significance of the Brain, by Pickersgill, Cunningham-Burley and Martin

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11/01/2013

Neurobiology in Public and Private Discourse: The Case of Adults with ADHD, by Broer and Heerings

Neurobiology in Public and Private Discourse: The Case of Adults with ADHD, by Broer and Heerings

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21/09/2015

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01/01/1960 (Circa)31/12/1969 (Circa)

Widespread of the definition of death according to brain-based criteria in clinical practice

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24/12/2011

The Transatlantic Divide Over Brain Death Determination and the Debate, by Wijdicks

The Transatlantic Divide Over Brain Death Determination and the Debate, by Wijdicks

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16/10/1997

Japan's Organ Transplantation Law

Japan's Organ Transplantation Law

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23/10/2000

Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan, by Masahiro Morioka

Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan, by Masahiro Morioka

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01/01/2002 (Circa)

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, by Margaret Lock

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, by Margaret Lock

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11/01/2010

Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A New Name for the Vegetative State or Apallic Syndrome, by Steven Laureys

Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A New Name for the Vegetative State or Apallic Syndrome, by Steven Laureys

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19/01/2014

Death, treatment decisions and the permanent vegetative state: evidence from families and experts, by Stephen Holland

Death, treatment decisions and the permanent vegetative state: evidence from families and experts, by Stephen Holland

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06/10/2010

Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Patients in a Permanent Vegetative State: Changing Tack, by Catherine Constable

Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Patients in a Permanent Vegetative State: Changing Tack, by Catherine Constable

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06/06/1995

The DNA Mystique, by Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee

The DNA Mystique, by Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee

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01/06/2004

How to Talk About the Body? The Normative Dimension of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour

How to Talk About the Body? The Normative Dimension of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour

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19/06/2013

The Problem with the Neuroscience Backlash, by Gary Marcus

The Problem with the Neuroscience Backlash, by Gary Marcus

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18/06/2013

David Brooks and the Anti-Neuroscience Backlash, by Paul Waldman

David Brooks and the Anti-Neuroscience Backlash, by Paul Waldman

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03/01/1988

Technologies of the Self, by Michel Foucault

Technologies of the Self, by Michel Foucault

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01/01/1993 (Circa)

Le philosophe et son scalpel: le problème de l'identité personnelle, by Stéphane Ferret

Le philosophe et son scalpel: le problème de l'identité personnelle, by Stéphane Ferret

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15/12/1983

Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, by Foucault

Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, by Foucault

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27/07/2011

More Dead Than Dead: Perceptions of Persons in the Persistent Vegetative State, by Kurt Gray

More Dead Than Dead: Perceptions of Persons in the Persistent Vegetative State, by Kurt Gray

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01/01/1988 (Circa)

Real People: Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments, by Kathleen Wilkes

Real People: Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments, by Kathleen Wilkes

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21/06/2003

Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts, by Joseph Dumit

Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts, by Joseph Dumit

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02/01/2013

Neurobiological Narratives: Experiences of Mood Disorder Through the Lens of Neuroimaging, by Daniel Buchman

Neurobiological Narratives: Experiences of Mood Disorder Through the Lens of Neuroimaging, by Daniel Buchman

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21/02/2013

Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, by Nikolas Rose and Joelle Abi-Rached

Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, by Nikolas Rose and Joelle Abi-Rached

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01/02/2012

Rebelling Against the Brain: Public Engagement with the ‘Neurological Adolescent, by Choudhury, McKinney and Merten

Rebelling Against the Brain: Public Engagement with the ‘Neurological Adolescent, by Choudhury, McKinney and Merten

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01/03/2008

A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking, by Laurence Steinberg

A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking, by Laurence Steinberg

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01/07/2013

Brain Talk: Power and Negotiation in Children’s Discourse About Self, Brain, and Behavior, by Ilina Singh

Brain Talk: Power and Negotiation in Children’s Discourse About Self, Brain, and Behavior, by Ilina Singh

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01/01/1969 (Circa)

Brain Transplantation and Personal Identity, by Roland Puccetti

Brain Transplantation and Personal Identity, by Roland Puccetti

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22/04/1999

The Genetic Self, by June Peters

The Genetic Self, by June Peters

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01/04/2013

How Has Neuroscience Affected Lay Understandings of Personhood?, by O'Connor and Joffe

How Has Neuroscience Affected Lay Understandings of Personhood?, by O'Connor and Joffe

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01/01/1995 (Circa)

Scott Gilbert's article about four biological views of the body/self—the neural, immunological, genetic, and phenotypic

Scott Gilbert's article about four biological views of the body/self—the neural, immunological, genetic, and phenotypic

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05/08/1968

Harvard Medical School landmark report

Harvard Medical School landmark report

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1929 (Circa)

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, by J.D. Bernal

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, by J.D. Bernal

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01/01/1690 (Circa)

The Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke

The Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke

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01/01/1701 BCE (Circa)

Edwin Smith surgical papyrus

Edwin Smith surgical papyrus

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1621 (Circa)

Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton

Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton

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01/01/1649 (Circa)

Passions of the Soul, by René Descartes

Passions of the Soul, by René Descartes

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01/01/351 BCE (Circa)

De Anima, by Aristotle

De Anima, by Aristotle

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/120101/01/1599

Aristotelianism

Aristotelianism

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/401 BCE (Circa)

On the Sacred Disease, by Hippocrates

On the Sacred Disease, by Hippocrates

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01/01/1575 (Circa)

The Tryal of Wits, by Juan Huarte

The Tryal of Wits, by Juan Huarte

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01/01/1664 (Circa)

The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, by Thomas Willis

The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, by Thomas Willis

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01/01/1661 (Circa)01/01/1699 (Circa)

Corpuscularianism

Corpuscularianism

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01/01/1694 (Circa)

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke

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01/01/1760 (Circa)Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul, by Charles Bonnet

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01/01/1907 (Circa)Quote by Auguste Forel

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1912 (Circa)Quote by Oskar Vogt

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1796 (Circa)01/01/1840 (Circa)

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1861 (Circa)

The case of Tan, studied by Paul Broca

The case of Tan, studied by Paul Broca

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18/04/1955

Albert Einstein's death

Albert Einstein's death

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01/01/1950 (Circa)Cybernetics

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01/01/1924 (Circa)

First human electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded

First human electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded

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01/01/1990 (Circa)Neuroplasticity

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01/01/2003 (Circa)Jonathon Keats copyrights his brain

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01/01/1844 (Circa)The Duality of the Mind, by Arthur Wigan

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1874 (Circa)The Brain Power of Man: Has He Two Brains or Has He One?, by Brown-Séquard

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1900 (Circa)New Methods in Education, by James Liberty Tadd

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

01/01/1903 (Circa)Foundation of the British Ambidextral Culture Society

Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject

27/12/2006

Article on Brain Calisthenics, at The New York Times

Article on Brain Calisthenics, at The New York Times

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01/01/1828 (Circa)

The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects, by George Combe

The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects, by George Combe

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01/01/1887 (Circa)

First Book in Physiology and Hygiene, by John Harvey Kellogg

First Book in Physiology and Hygiene, by John Harvey Kellogg

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01/01/1859 (Circa)

Self-Help, by Samuel Smiles

Self-Help, by Samuel Smiles

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01/01/1869 (Circa)01/01/1885 (Circa)The New Thought or Mind Cure Movement

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01/01/2002 (Circa)Foundation of the Posit Science Corporation

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01/01/1960 (Circa)Right-brain boom

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01/03/1992Smart for Life, by Michael D. Chafetz

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15/01/2001

The Executive Brain, by Elkhonon Goldberg

The Executive Brain, by Elkhonon Goldberg

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