Critical Neuroscience
Autor: | Suparna Choudhury, Jan Slaby |
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EAN: | 9781444343335 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 07.09.2011 |
Untertitel: | A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience |
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Schlagworte: | brain science critical theory fMRI lifeworld neural neuroideology neuropsychology social neuroscience |
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Critical 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.
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.
- Original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience
- Furthers the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities
- Transcends traditional scepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about science
- Features contributions from eminent scholars including Steven Rose, Joseph Dumit, Laurence Kirmayer, Shaun Gallagher, Fernando Vidal, Allan Young and Joan Chiao
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.