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

• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Neurosciences; Neurophysiology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LittlefieldMelissa M. <1979-> JohnsonJenell M. <1978->
• 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 - Kélina 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'
• Titolo autorizzato: The neuroscientific turn
• ISBN: 1-283-54337-0; 9786613855824; 0-472-02835-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463864203321
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