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Unraveling : remaking personhood in a neurodiverse age / Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurosciences--Social aspects.
- Neurosciences.
- Neurosciences--Philosophy.
- Nervous system--Diseases.
- Nervous system.
- Sociology of disability.
- Self.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- MInneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface: Blind-Man-and-World
- Introduction: Let's Build a New Nervous System
- Neurological Subjectivity: How Neuroscience Makes and Unmakes People through Neurological Disorder
- Symbolic Subjectivity: How Psychoanalysis and the Communication of Meaning Disable Individuals
- Materialist Subjectivity: How Technology and Material Environments Make Personhood Possible
- Cybernetic Subjectivity: The Fusion of Body, Symbol, and Environment in the Facilitated Person
- Facilitated Subjectivity, Affective Bioethics, and the Nervous System
- Epilogue: Living and Dying in the Nervous System.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.. Unraveling
- ISBN:
- 9781452963327
- 1452963320
- 9781452963310
- 1452963312
- Publisher Number:
- 99986145736
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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