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

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of 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 th...

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Main Authors: Choudhury, Suparna, Slaby, Jan
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2011
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Edition:1
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ISBN:9781119237891, 1119237890, 9781444343335, 1444343335, 9781444333282, 1444333283, 9781444343359, 1444343351
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience -- Contents -- Credits -- List of Illustrations -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Critical Neuroscience-Between Lifeworld and Laboratory -- Part I-Motivations and Foundations -- 1 Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience -- 2 The Need for a Critical Neuroscience: From Neuroideology to Neurotechnology -- 3 Against First Nature: Critical Theory and Neuroscience -- 4 Scanning the Lifeworld: Toward a Critical Neuroscience of Action and Interaction -- Part II-Histories of the Brain -- 5 Toys are Us: Models and Metaphors in Brain Research -- 6 The Neuromance of Cerebral History -- 7 Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain -- Part III- Neuroscience in Context: From Laboratory to Lifeworld -- 8 Disrupting Images: Neuroscientific Representations in the Lives of Psychiatric Patients -- 9 Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind -- 10 Radical Reductions: Neurophysiology, Politics and Personhood in Russian Addiction Medicine -- 11 Delirious Brain Chemistry and Controlled Culture: Exploring the Contextual Mediation of Drug Effects -- Part IV- Situating the Brain: From Lifeworld Back to Laboratory? -- 12 From Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup -- 13 The Salmon of Doubt: Six Months of Methodological Controversy within Social Neuroscience -- 14 Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice -- Part V- Beyond Neural Correlates: Ecological Approaches to Psychiatry -- 15 Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism -- 16 Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain? -- 17 Are there Neural Correlates of Depression? -- 18 The Future of Critical Neuroscience -- Index