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I was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, where I graduated from the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. I received a B.A. from Harvard University, graduate degrees in psychology and the history and philosophy of science from the Universities of Geneva and Paris, and a Habilitation from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. I have worked on the history of the human sciences from the early modern period to the present, moving in recent years to present-day questions, largely related to bioethics and medical anthropology. My book "Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject" (with F. Ortega, 2017) critically explores the widespread belief that "we are our brains" in history and contemporary culture, and in some ways continues "The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology" (2011), which dealt with major transformations in the field between the late Renaissance and the Enlightenment. My latest book, "Performing Brains on Screen" (2022) prolongs "Being Brains" in fiction cinema, one area of particular cultural significance for the elaboration and rehearsal of the "cerebral subject."
I have been a Guggenheim Fellow, Athena Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and Harvard University's Department of the History of Science, Fellow at the Brocher Foundation, and Visiting Professor in Buenos Aires, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico and Japan. In 2016 I was elected Associate Member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré (Paris) and member of the Academia Europaea in 2017. In 2021 I received the Carlson Award "in recognition of extraordinary scholarship in the history of the human sciences."
From 2000 to 2012, I was permanent Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. I then became Research Professor of ICREA, the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. I was first at the Center for the History of Science (Autonoma University of Barcelona), and in 2018 moved to the Medical Anthropology Research Center of the Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.
Most of my research belongs in the history of the human sciences broadly conceived, with particular interest in the relationships between science, culture and values. I have worked on topics such as early modern and Enlightenment psychology, the early modern history of the imagination, miracles and science, sexuality in the 18th century, the longue-durée history of the body and personal identity, psychoanalysis and psychiatry in the early 20th century, the progressive education movement in the interwar years of the 20th century, and the rise of “neurocultures” since the mid-20th century. I have also written about and edited the Genevan critic and historian Jean Starobinski, and edited a number of books, including among others "The Moral Authority of Nature (with L. Daston) and "Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture" (with N. Dias).
My main current project in the field of medical anthropology explores how the disorders of consciousness, and especially the locked-in syndrome, articulate with conceptions of personhood and subjectivities in historical and transcultural perspectives. For an overview, see here:
http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2018/10/phenomenology-of-locked-in-syndrome.html
and here:
http://www.antropologia.urv.cat/en/research/projects/locked-in-syndrome/locked-in-syndrome/.
For a longer description of my "lines of research," see my institutional homepage: https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/fernando-vidal-555.
Address: Medical Anthropology Research Center, DAFITS - Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya 35, ES-43002 Tarragona
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DISABILITY & SOCIETYpp.1-22, (2023)
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Performing Brains on Screen (2022)
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