Critical neuroscience : a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience / / edited by Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Choudhury, Suparna.; Slaby, Jan.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xv, 390, [8] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.)

Table of Contents

Proposal for a critical neuroscience / Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury -- The need for a critical neuroscience : from neuroideology to neurotechnology / Steven Rose -- Against first nature : critical theory and neuroscience / Martin Hartmann -- Scanning the lifeworld : toward a critical neuroscience of action and interaction / Shaun Gallagher -- Toys are us : models and metaphors in brain science / Cornelius Borck -- The neuromance of cerebral history / Max Stadler -- Empathic cruelty and the origins of the social brain / Allan Young -- Disrupting images : neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients / Simon Cohn -- Critically producing brain images of mind / Joseph Dumit -- Radical reductions : neurophysiology, politics, and personhood in Russian addiction medicine / Eugene Raikhel -- Delirious brain chemistry and controlled culture : exploring the contextual mediation of drug effects / Nicolas Langlitz -- Critical neuroscience : from neuroimaging to tea leaves in the bottom of a cup / Amir Raz -- The salmon of doubt : six months of methodological controversy within social neuroscience / Daniel Margulies -- Cultural neuroscience as critical neuroscience in practice -- Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. Cheon -- Re-socializing psychiatry : critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold -- Are mental illnesses diseases of the brain? / Thomas Fuchs -- Are there neural correlates of depression? / Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega -- The future of critical neuroscience / Laurence J. Kirmayer.