Nima Bassiri

Journal article Modern Intellectual History · August 2019 In a recent forum contribution to the American Historical Review on the relationship between history and biology, Lynn Hunt proposed that the future of academic scholarship devoted to exploring the origins and development ... Full text Cite

Freud and the Matter of the Brain: On the Rearrangements of Neuropsychoanalysis

Journal article Critical Inquiry · September 2013 Full text Cite

The Brain and the Unconscious Soul in Eighteenth-Century Nervous Physiology: Robert Whytt’s Sensorium Commune

Journal article Journal of the History of Ideas · July 2013 This article examines the work of eighteenth-century Scottish physician Robert Whytt. With a philosophical sensibility, Whytt produced a theory of the nerves that viewed the nervous system as an organic unity, one that continuousl ... Full text Cite

Material translations in the Cartesian brain

Journal article Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences · March 2012 Full text Cite