Critical Neuroscience

A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience
Ed. by Choudhury, Suparna; Slaby, Jan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a collective effort to understand the impact of the intellectual, economic and political conditions on current views of the brain and how these models may in turn impact society.

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Critical Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinaryscholars from around the world to explore key social, historicaland philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze thesocio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field.

Original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creativepotential for engaging experimental neuroscience with socialstudies of neuroscience

Furthers the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplinesof the social sciences and humanities

Transcends traditional scepticism, introducing novel ideasabout 'how to be critical' in and about science

Features contributions from eminent scholars including StevenRose, Joseph Dumit, Laurence Kirmayer, Shaun Gallagher, FernandoVidal, Allan Young and Joan Chiao

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A444333280
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 179mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 873g
• ISBN-13: 9781444333282
• ISBN-10: 1444333283
• Artikelnr.: 34160899

Autorenporträt

Suparna Choudhury is Junior Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Berlin Institute for Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Germany. Her research examines the emergence of the 'neurological adolescent'. She has also published on cultural neuroscience and topics at the intersection of neuroscience and society. Jan Slaby is Junior Professor in Philosophy of Mind and Emotion at Free University Berlin, Germany. The author of a German-language book exploring the world-disclosing nature of human emotions, he has also been involved in research and teaching on the philosophy of psychiatry, with a particular focus on affective disorders and background feelings.

Inhaltsangabe

About the editors. About the contributors. Preface. Introduction: Critical
Neuroscience: Between Lifeworld and Laboratory (Suparna Choudhury and Jan
Slaby). Part I - Motivations and Foundations. Chapter 1: Proposal for a
Critical Neuroscience(Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury). Chapter 2: The Need
for a Critical Neuroscience. From Neuroideology to Neurotechnology (Steven
Rose). Chapter 3: Against First Nature. Critical Theory and Neuroscience
(Martin Hartmann). Chapter 4: Scanning the Lifeworld: Toward a Critical
Neuroscience of Action and Interaction (Shaun Gallagher). Part II -
Histories of the Brain. Chapter 5: Toys are Us. Models and Metaphors in
Brain Science (Cornelius Borck). Chapter 6: The Neuromance of Cerebral
History(Max Stadler). Chapter 7: Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the
Social Brain(Allan Young). Part III - Neuroscience in Context: From
Laboratory to Lifeworld. Chapter 8: Disrupting Images: Neuroscientific
representations in the lives of psychiatric patients (Simon Cohn). Chapter
9: Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind(Joseph Dumit). Chapter 10:
Radical Reductions. Neurophysiology, Politics, and Personhood in Russian
Addiction Medicine(Eugene Raikhel). Chapter 11: Delirious Brain Chemistry
and Controlled Culture: Exploring the Contextual Mediation of Drug Effects
(Nicolas Langlitz). Part IV - Situating the brain in context: from
lifeworld back to laboratory? Chapter 12: Critical Neuroscience: From
Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup (Amir Raz). Chapter 13:
The Salmon of Doubt: Six Months of Methodological Controversy within Social
Neuroscience(Daniel Margulies). Chapter 14: Cultural Neuroscience as
Critical Neuroscience in Practice(Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. Cheon). Part V
- Beyond neural correlates: Ecological approaches to psychiatry. Chapter
15: Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of
Reductionism(Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold). Chapter 16: Are Mental
Illnesses Diseases of the Brain?(Thomas Fuchs). Chapter 17: Are there
neural correlates of depression?(Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega).
Chapter 18: The Future of Critical Neuroscience (Laurence J. Kirmayer).

Rezensionen

Neurological thinking has extended itself into a great many spheres of life, from "neuroanthropology" to "neurozoology". We have urgently needed to understand this development within a broad historical and cultural context and Critical Neuroscience provides us with the necessary tools to engage with neuroscience and its social impacts in productive and intelligent ways. The book will be an extremely important resource for anyone interested in understanding how and why neuroscientific research has led us to think about social life in new ways.
Emily Martin, Professor of Anthropology, New York University and author of 'Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture'

At a time where neuroscience, whether molecular or social, is expanding so rapidly to nearly all aspects of human societies, way beyond academia, this volume brings a welcome and refreshing perspective. Choudhury and Slaby are to be commended for bringing together various scholars within a framework that constructively criticizes and analyzes potentials and problems, promises and challenges, pitfalls and strengths associated with human neuroscience. This volume is extremely important to all, and is of special benefit to the emerging field of social neuroscience.
Jean Decety, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Co-Director of Brain Research Imaging Centre, University of Chicago

The neurosciences today are at once the site of genuinely exciting research, of wild claims for the field's "revolutionary" significance for human self-understanding, and of skeptical dismissals of both. Critical Neuroscience shows instead how to analyze this scientific work with utmost seriousness, through critical reflection on its history and guiding assumptions, its involvement in multiple practical and institutional settings, its scientific prospects, and how it affects and is affected by how we think about ourselves. The book offers a model for thoughtful engagement with innovative, widely influential scientific research.
Joseph Rouse, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the 'Science in Society' Program, Wesleyan University, USA