Critical neuroscience : a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience / edited by Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choudhury, Suparna.

Slaby, Jan

Gail and Warren Lieberfarb Mental Health and Neuroscience Library Resources Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences--Social aspects.

Neurosciences.

Mental illness.

Social adjustment.

Mental Disorders.

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.

Social Adjustment.

Medical Subjects:

Neurosciences.

Mental Disorders.

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.

Social Adjustment.

Physical Description:

xv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Summary:

Critical Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a collective effort to understand the impact of intellectual, economic, and political conditions on current views of the brain, and how these models may in turn impact society. The editors create an interdisciplinary forum, within which contributors engage in fruitful debate about the potential of tools, the complexities of data interpretation, and the social, political, and cultural contexts of neuroscience research. Together, they engage the social sciences and humanities with experimental neuroscience and address fundamental questions of how to critique neuroscience in society. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gail and Warren Lieberfarb Mental Health and Neuroscience Library Resources Fund.

ISBN:

9781444333282

1444333283

OCLC:

726074667