Sociological reflections on the neurosciences

The neurosciences are the new cutting edge in biomedicine, and this is the first book to take a sociological imagination to this field. The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices they offer up new ways of thinking about mind, body and society. Up to now, debate about the ne...

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Other Authors Pickersgill, Martyn, Keulen, Ira Van
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
SeriesAdvances in medical sociology ; v. 13.
Subjects
Neurosciences > Social aspects.
Social medicine.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781848558816
ISSN1057-6290 ;
DOI10.1108/S1057-6290(2011)13
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 324 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : neuroscience, identity and society / Martyn Pickersgill, Ira van Keulen
  • A child surrounds this brain : the future of neurological difference according to scientists, parents and diagnosed young adults / Rayna Rapp
  • Innocent machines : Asperger's syndrome and the neurostructural self / Elizabeth Fein
  • Narration and neuroscience : encountering the social on the 'last frontier of medicine' / Sara Shostak, Miranda Waggoner
  • On the assembly line : neuroimaging production in clinical practice / Kelly Joyce
  • A stone in a spaghetti bowl : the biological and metaphorical brain in neuro-oncology / Sky Gross
  • Is depression a brain disorder? : neuroscience in mental health care / Ilpo Helén
  • 'We haven't sliced open anyone's brain yet' : neuroscience, embodiment and the governance of addiction / Julie Netherland
  • Are we receptive to naturalistic explanatory models of our disease experience? : applications of deep brain stimulation to obsessive compulsive disorders and Parkinson's disease / Baptiste Moutaud
  • Cognitive enhancement? : exploring Modafinil use in social context / Catherine M. Coveney
  • Neuroscience and medicalisation : sociological reflections on memory, medicine and the brain / Simon J. Williams, Stephen Katz, Paul Martin
  • Sociology of neuroscience or neurosociology? / Christian von Scheve
  • Lost and found in translation : popular neuroscience in the emerging neurodisciplines / Jenell M. Johnson, Melissa M. Littlefield
  • Field of dreams : a social history of neuroethics / Erin C. Conrad, Raymond De Vries.

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