Sociological reflections on the neurosciences :/

Pickersgill, Martyn; Keulen, Ira van

Sociological reflections on the neurosciences :/ - eBook : Document : English - Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011. - xxii, 324 pages : illustrations.


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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