Critical neuroscience: a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience

Critical Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. Original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creat...

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Other Authors: Slaby, Jan (Editor) , Choudhury, Suparna (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwell ©2012
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DOI:10.1002/9781444343359
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Author Notes:edited by Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby
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Summary:Critical Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. Original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscienceFurthers the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanitiesTranscends traditional scepticism, introducing novel ideas about 'how to be critical' in and about scienceFeatur
Proposal for a critical neuroscience /Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury --The need for a critical neuroscience : from neuroideology to neurotechnology /Steven Rose --Against first nature : critical theory and neuroscience /Martin Hartmann --Scanning the lifeworld : toward a critical neuroscience of action and interaction /Shaun Gallagher --Toys are us : models and metaphors in brain science /Cornelius Borck --The neuromance of cerebral history /Max Stadler --Empathic cruelty and the origins of the social brain /Allan Young --Disrupting images : neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients /Simon Cohn --Critically producing brain images of mind /Joseph Dumit --Radical reductions : neurophysiology, politics, and personhood in Russian addiction medicine /Eugene Raikhel --Delirious brain chemistry and controlled culture : exploring the contextual mediation of drug effects /Nicolas Langlitz --Critical neuroscience : from neuroimaging to tea leaves in the bottom of a cup /Amir Raz --The salmon of doubt : six months of methodological controversy within social neuroscience /Daniel Margulies --Cultural neuroscience as critical neuroscience in practice --Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. Cheon --Re-socializing psychiatry : critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism /Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold --Are mental illnesses diseases of the brain? /Thomas Fuchs --Are there neural correlates of depression? /Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega --The future of critical neuroscience /Laurence J. Kirmayer.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:Online Resource
ISBN:1444343327
1118509765
9781444343328
9781118509760
9781444343359
DOI:10.1002/9781444343359