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Critical Neuroscience :

Critical Neuroscience : A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience / edited by Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby. - Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, ©2012. - 1 online resource (pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Proposal for a critical neuroscience / The need for a critical neuroscience : from neuroideology to neurotechnology / Against first nature : critical theory and neuroscience / Scanning the lifeworld : toward a critical neuroscience of action and interaction / Toys are us : models and metaphors in brain science / The neuromance of cerebral history / Empathic cruelty and the origins of the social brain / Disrupting images : neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients / Critically producing brain images of mind / Radical reductions : neurophysiology, politics, and personhood in Russian addiction medicine / Delirious brain chemistry and controlled culture : exploring the contextual mediation of drug effects / Critical neuroscience : from neuroimaging to tea leaves in the bottom of a cup / The salmon of doubt : six months of methodological controversy within social neuroscience / Cultural neuroscience as critical neuroscience in practice -- Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. Cheon -- Re-socializing psychiatry : critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism / Are mental illnesses diseases of the brain? / Are there neural correlates of depression? / The future of critical neuroscience / Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury -- Steven Rose -- Martin Hartmann -- Shaun Gallagher -- Cornelius Borck -- Max Stadler -- Allan Young -- Simon Cohn -- Joseph Dumit -- Eugene Raikhel -- Nicolas Langlitz -- Amir Raz -- Daniel Margulies -- Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold -- Thomas Fuchs -- Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega -- Laurence J. Kirmayer.

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.

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Neurosciences--Social aspects.
Mental illness.
Social adjustment.
Neurosciences.
Mental Disorders.
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.
Social Adjustment.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Mental illness.
Neurosciences--Social aspects.
Social adjustment.
Leib-Seele-Problem.
Neurowissenschaften.
Psychische Störung.
Sozialanthropologie.
Neurowetenschappen.
Sociale aspecten.
Leib-Seele-Problem.
Neurowissenschaften.
Psychische Störung.
Sozialanthropologie.


Electronic books.

RC343.3 / .C75 2012eb

362.196/89

WL 100