Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of NeuroscienceSuparna Choudhury, Jan Slaby 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 the field. This text’s original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience while furthering the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Critical Neuroscience transcends traditional skepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about science. |
Contents
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Part IMotivations and Foundations 27 | 29 |
From Neuroideology | 53 |
Critical Theory and Neuroscience | 67 |
Toward a Critical Neuroscience | 85 |
Models and Metaphors in Brain Research | 113 |
The Neuromance of Cerebral History | 135 |
Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain | 159 |
Exploring | 253 |
From | 263 |
Six Months of Methodological | 273 |
Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice | 287 |
Ecological | 305 |
Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain? | 331 |
Are there Neural Correlates of Depression? | 345 |
The Future of Critical Neuroscience | 367 |
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