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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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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2011.
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| Series: | Advances in medical sociology ;
v. 13. |
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| Online Access: | Full-text access View in OPAC |
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.