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The neuroscientific turn : transdisciplinarity in the age of the brain /

The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Littlefield, Melissa M., 1979-, Johnson, Jenell M., 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: A Neuro-Pivot
  • Judy Illes; Introduction: Theorizing the Neuroscientific Turn-Critical Perspectives on a Translational Discipline
  • Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson; Part 1. The Neuroscientific Turn in Context; 1. "The Paradise of Non-Experts": The Neuroscientific Turn of the 1840s United States
  • Justine S. Murison; 2. The Performativity of a Historical Brain Event: Revisiting 1517 Strassburg
  • Jameson Kismet Bell; 3. The Neural Metaphor
  • Kélina Gotman; Part 2. The Neuroscientific Turn in Practice.
  • 4. Brainhood, Selfhood, or "Meat with a Point of View": The Value of Fiction for Neuroscientific Research and Neurological Medicine
  • Sarah Birge5. Neuroscience and the Quest for God
  • Scott E. Hendrix and Christopher J. May; 6. Literacy in a Biocultural World: Integrating Sociocultural Studies of Literacy and Neuroscientific Research
  • Gwen Gorzelsky; 7. Pragmatic Neuroethics and Neuroscience's Potential to Radically Change Ethics
  • Eric Racine and Emma Zimmerman; 8. Fast-Moving Objects and Their Consequences: A Response to the Neuroscientific Turn in Practice
  • Anne Beaulieu.
  • Part 3. Critical Responses to the Neuroscientific Turn9. Neuroeconomics: A Cautionary Primer
  • James Niels Rosenquist and Casey Rothschild; 10. Functional Brain Imaging: Neuro-Turnor Wrong Turn?
  • Susan M. Fitzpatrick; 11. A Clinical Neuroscientist Looks Neuroskeptically at Neuroethics in the Neuroworld
  • Peter J. Whitehouse; 12. The Mind-Sciences in a Literature Classroom
  • Bruce Michelson; Afterword: Twisting the Neurohelix
  • Joseph Dumit; Contributors; Index.