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Unraveling : remaking personhood in a neurodiverse age /
"Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human. Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundame...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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MInneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.