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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788668703321

Titolo

The neuroscientific turn : transdisciplinarity in the age of the brain / / Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

1-283-54337-0

9786613855824

0-472-02835-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LittlefieldMelissa M. <1979->

JohnsonJenell M. <1978->

Disciplina

612.8

Soggetti

Neuroscience

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: A Neuro-Pivot - Judy Illes; Introduction: Theorizing the Neuroscientific Turn-Critical Perspectives on a Translational Discipline - Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson; Part 1. The Neuroscientific Turn in Context; 1. "The Paradise of Non-Experts": The Neuroscientific Turn of the 1840's United States - Justine S. Murison; 2. The Performativity of a Historical Brain Event: Revisiting 1517 Strassburg - Jameson Kismet Bell; 3. The Neural Metaphor - KeĢlina Gotman; Part 2. The Neuroscientific Turn in Practice

4. Brainhood, Selfhood, or "Meat with a Point of View": The Value of Fiction for Neuroscientific Research and Neurological Medicine - Sarah Birge 5. Neuroscience and the Quest for God - Scott E. Hendrix and Christopher J. May; 6. Literacy in a Biocultural World: Integrating Sociocultural Studies of Literacy and Neuroscientific Research - Gwen Gorzelsky; 7. Pragmatic Neuroethics and Neuroscience's Potential to Radically Change Ethics - Eric Racine and Emma Zimmerman; 8. Fast-Moving Objects and Their Consequences: A Response to the Neuroscientific Turn in Practice - Anne Beaulieu

Part 3. Critical Responses to the Neuroscientific Turn 9. Neuroeconomics: A Cautionary Primer - James Niels Rosenquist and Casey Rothschild; 10. Functional Brain Imaging: Neuro-Turnor Wrong Turn? - Susan M. Fitzpatrick; 11. A Clinical Neuroscientist Looks



Neuroskeptically at Neuroethics in the Neuroworld - Peter J. Whitehouse; 12. The Mind-Sciences in a Literature Classroom - Bruce Michelson; Afterword: Twisting the Neurohelix - Joseph Dumit; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary collection considering implications of the current 'neurorevolution'