Published July, 2017
By Francisco Ortega and Fernando Vidal
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.

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Published February, 2017
By Claude Panaccio, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Philosophy Joshua P Hochschild and Meredith K Ziebart
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Published November, 2016
By Michael Dillon, Jacob Lau, Cameron Partridge, Susan Stryker and Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship's surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

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Published January, 2016
By Professor David Bates, Nima Bassiri, Professor of Medieval History David Bates and David Bates
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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This collection of essays explores the historical and theoretical dimensions of the contemporary neural subject. With a multidisciplinary perspective, the volume focuses attention on the important, but problematic notion of plasticity as a way of rethinking the relationship between human experience and both pathological and normal states of the nervous system.

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Published January, 2016
By Professor David Bates, Nima Bassiri and David Bates
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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This collection of essays explores the historical and theoretical dimensions of the contemporary neural subject. With a multidisciplinary perspective, the volume focuses attention on the important, but problematic notion of plasticity as a way of rethinking the relationship between human experience and both pathological and normal states of the nervous system.

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Published November, 2015
By Assistant Professor of Religion Science and Technology Gaymon Bennett, Co-Founder and Senior Researcher Gaymon Bennett and Gaymon Bennett
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Tracks the development of the concept of human dignity in post-war ethics and politics, focusing on the Vatican, the United Nations, and U.S. Federal Bioethics.

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Published October, 2015
By Todd Meyers, Deceased Herve Guibert, Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology Todd Meyers, Professor and Chair of French and Italian Studies Clara Orban, Professor of French and Women's Studies David Caron, Hervae Guibert, Herve Guibert, David Caron and Clara Orban
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.

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Published October, 2015
By Todd Meyers, Deceased Herve Guibert, Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology Todd Meyers, Professor and Chair of French and Italian Studies Clara Orban, Professor of French and Women's Studies David Caron, Hervae Guibert, Herve Guibert, David Caron and Clara Orban
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.

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Published July, 2015
By Jeffrey Berman, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Paul Mosher, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Jeffrey Berman, Paul Mosher and Paul W. Mosher
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy explores the human stories arising from the psychotherapist's dual allegiance to patient and society. These dilemmas include the hazards of publishing a case study without the patient's permission and the unexpected problems arising from the therapist functioning as a "double agent."

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Published July, 2015
By Jeffrey Berman, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Paul Mosher, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Jeffrey Berman, Paul Mosher and Paul W. Mosher
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy explores the human stories arising from the psychotherapist's dual allegiance to patient and society. These dilemmas include the hazards of publishing a case study without the patient's permission and the unexpected problems arising from the therapist functioning as a "double agent."

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