NEURO Lecture Series | Dr. Nima Bassiri

Описание: The University of Chicago NEURO Club's Committee on Undergraduate Enrichment (CUE) led by Jeanne Chauffour ('15) invited their third speaker for the Neuroscience Lecture Series on May 1st, 2013 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Nima Bassiri, Ph.D., Dr. Bassiri is one of own, having studied at the University of Chicago during his undergraduate years, majoring in Psychology and Art History. Dr. Bassiri then went on to earn a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California-Berkeley, for which he wrote a dissertation entitled: "Dislocations of the Brain: Subjectivity and Cerebral Topology from Descartes to Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience". Today, Nima Bassiri is an ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) New Faculty Fellow at Duke University. He teaches the class on history and philosophy of brain and behavioral science in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, and the Program in Literature, and he is a postdoctoral associate of Duke's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory.

In his talk entitled ""Pathology and Personhood in the History of Brain Research", Dr. Bassiri discusses the recent consideration, among sociologists and anthropologists of science, of what the proliferation of neuroscience has meant for categories of 'person' and 'self' today. In this talk, Nima Bassiri offers a historical analysis of the emergence of the category of the "neural person." He suggests that this category arises as a possibility in relation to transformations in the definitions of normality and pathology within the history of brain research, spanning from the seventeenth to nineteenth century. The talk concludes with an examination of medico-legal discussions on madness, personhood, and the brain in late nineteenth-century British neurology.

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