From the experimental body to the experimental patient: Medical experimentation in neuroscience

• Autores: Baptiste Moutaud
• Localización: Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment / coord. por Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011, ISBN 978-84-694-4991-2, págs. 239-259
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter sets out to explore the forms of medical practice that arise from the application of therapeutic biotechnologies. The purpose is to describe how the use of a neurosurgical technology, Deep Brain Stimulation, for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders in a French hospital creates new configurations of collective practices, by (re)aligning the objectives and practices of a variety of actors, and by developing new entities in the course of its experimental development.