[...] For example, in her study of bipolar disorder patients, the anthropologist Emily Martin (2009) describes the clash between a dominant reductionist model and the individuals who challenged the idea that neurobiology sufficed to explain their experience. Grassroots diversity thus coexists with a more homogenous official discourse."
Visit at the link below the Max Planck Institute online Media Library, to learn more about Martin's work presented at the International Workshop "Neurocultures".
Emily Martin is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at New York University, which areas of interest a...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.