BRAINHOOD, ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIGURE OF MODERNITY
https://doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2020-2-208-247
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About the Author
Fernando VidalSpain
historian of the human sciences, medical anthropologist.
Research professor of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
(ICREA) (Barcelona, Spain) and Professor at the Medical Anthropology Research
Center, Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain)
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