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.
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
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| About the Editors |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction: Critical Neuroscience---Between Lifeworld and Laboratory |
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Part I Motivations and Foundations |
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1 Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience |
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2 The Need for a Critical Neuroscience: From Neuroideology to Neurotechnology |
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3 Against First Nature: Critical Theory and Neuroscience |
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4 Scanning the Lifeworld: Toward a Critical Neuroscience of Action and Interaction |
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Part II Histories of the Brain |
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5 Toys are Us: Models and Metaphors in Brain Research |
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6 The Neuromance of Cerebral History |
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7 Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain |
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Part III Neuroscience in Context: From Laboratory to Lifeworld |
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8 Disrupting Images: Neuroscientific Representations in the Lives of Psychiatric Patients |
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9 Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind |
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10 Radical Reductions: Neurophysiology, Politics and Personhood in Russian Addiction Medicine |
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11 Delirious Brain Chemistry and Controlled Culture: Exploring the Contextual Mediation of Drug Effects |
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Part IV Situating the Brain: From Lifeworld Back to Laboratory? |
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12 From Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup |
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13 The Salmon of Doubt: Six Months of Methodological Controversy within Social Neuroscience |
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14 Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice |
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Part V Beyond Neural Correlates: Ecological Approaches to Psychiatry |
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15 Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism |
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16 Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain? |
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17 Are there Neural Correlates of Depression? |
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18 The Future of Critical Neuroscience |
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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.
