Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Pickersgill Martyn
• Pubblicazione: Bradford, : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Neurosciences
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Van KeulenIra KatzRothmanBarbara
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: FRONT COVER; SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE NEUROSCIENCES; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: NEUROSCIENCE, IDENTITY AND SOCIETY; SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE NEUROSCIENCES; REFERENCES; PART I: NEUROSCIENCE AS CULTURE; A CHILD SURROUNDS THIS BRAIN: THE FUTURE OF NEUROLOGICAL DIFFERENCE ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, PARENTS AND DIAGNOSED YOUNG ADULTS; ENTERING NEUROSCIENCE; MAKING KNOWLEDGE; MAKING UP PEOPLE?; CONSTRUCTING DATA; DEVELOPING BRAINS; EMERGENT EXPERTS; CODA; NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES ; INNOCENT MACHINES: ASPERGER'S SYNDROME AND THE NEUROSTRUCTURAL SELFINTRODUCTION: ''IT'S NOT NEUROCHEMICAL. IT'S STRUCTURAL''; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN THE HIERARCHY OF NEUROIDENTITIES; BRAINHOODS OF BROOKFIELD; MIND INTO MATTER: PSYCHOANALYTIC AND BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRIES; BATTERIES ARE REALLY USEFUL: ASPERGER'S SYNDROME AND THE TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SELF; PROCESSES OF EXEMPLIFICATION: CONSUMPTION, IDENTIFICATION, PRODUCTIVITY, AND REPRESENTATION; THIS IS WHO I AM: NEUROSTRUCTURE AND THE IDENTITY POLITICS OF HARDWIRING; BREAKABLE MIRRORS: MIMESIS AND MATERIALITY AT BROOKFIELD ; CONCLUSION: THE CHEMICAL AND THE STRUCTURALACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; NARRATION AND NEUROSCIENCE: ENCOUNTERING THE SOCIAL ON THE ''LAST FRONTIER OF MEDICINE''; DIAGNOSING DISEASE: SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, AND NARRATIVES; DATA AND METHODS; UNCHARTED TERRITORIES: THE BIOLOGICAL AND THE SOCIAL IN EPILEPSY GENETICS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE: NEUROIMAGING PRODUCTION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSTRUCTING NEUROIMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE; ACCELERATION OF PRODUCTION; PRODUCING DOCILE PATIENTS; THE NEGOTIATION AND RESISTANCE OF PRODUCTION PROCESSES ; PROFESSIONAL HIERARCHIES: LIFE ON THE ASSEMBLY LINEGUARDIANS OF THE MAGNET; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; A STONE IN A SPAGHETTI BOWL: THE BIOLOGICAL AND METAPHORICAL BRAIN IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SOMETHING ABOUT BRAIN TUMOURS; THE BIOMEDICALISED AND THE VISUALISED; THE SPATIAL BRAIN; OBJECTIFICATION IN THE CLINIC; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; PART II: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND ENHANCEMENT; IS DEPRESSION A BRAIN DISORDER? NEUROSCIENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE; DEPRESSION AS AN EXAMPLE; FINNISH CASE; CLINICAL BRICOLAGE; ELEMENTS OF BIOLOGY; DRUG TRAIL; BEYOND SEROTONIN; DISCUSSION: DEPRESSION TAKEN APART ; REFERENCES''WE HAVEN'T SLICED OPEN ANYONE'S BRAIN YET'': NEUROSCIENCE, EMBODIMENT AND THE GOVERNANCE OF ADDICTION; INTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND; PLEASURE: OPIOID RECEPTORS AND THE HIJACKED BRAIN; RATIONALITY: THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND OPIOID INDUCED BRAIN INJURY; NEUROPLASTICITY: THE NEURAL CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; VOLITION: CHARACTER FLAW OR BONA FIDE BRAIN DISEASE?; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ARE WE RECEPTIVE TO NATURALISTIC EXPLANATORY MODELS OF OUR DISEASE EXPERIENCE? APPLICATIONS OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION TO OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDERS AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE; INTRODUCTION ; SOCIAL-ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS AMONG THE STIMULATED PATIENTS: AN UNDEFINED ILL-BEING
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume addresses this need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
• ISBN: 1-84855-881-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460962403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in Medical Sociology, 13