Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
Published on 30. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-1-78052-632-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses the 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.
Reviews / Votes
This is a fruitful gathering of sociological and anthropological perspectives on developments in the brain sciences. Not only does the social world of brain scientists come alive in these chapters, but we also learn a lot about patients and families who struggle with various disabilities and disorders. It is particularly gratifying to see newer scholars contributing to an area that should become a core interest for social scientists.' Ilina Singh, Co-Editor, BioSocietiesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
529 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78052-632-4 (9781780526324)
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Content
Introduction: Neuroscience, Identity and Society.
A Child Surrounds this Brain: The Future of Neurological Difference According to Scientists, Parents and Diagnosed Young Adults.
Innocent Machines: Asperger's Syndrome and the Neurostructural Self.
Narration and Neuroscience: Encountering the Social on the "Last Frontier of Medicine".
On the Assembly Line: Neuroimaging Production in Clinical Practice.
A Stone in a Spaghetti Bowl: The Biological and Metaphorical Brain in Neuro-Oncology.
Is Depression a Brain Disorder? Neuroscience in Mental Health Care.
"We haven't Sliced Open anyone's Brain yet": Neuroscience, Embodiment and the Governance of Addiction.
Are we Receptive to Naturalistic Explanatory Models of our Disease Experience?
Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation to Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Parkinson's Disease.
Cognitive Enhancement? Exploring Modafinil use in Social Context.
Neuroscience and Medicalisation: Sociological Reflections on Memory, Medicine and the Brain.
Sociology of Neuroscience or Neurosociology?.
Lost and Found in Translation: Popular Neuroscience in the Emerging Neurodisciplines.
Field of Dreams: A Social History of Neuroethics.
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences.
Advances in medical sociology.
A Child Surrounds this Brain: The Future of Neurological Difference According to Scientists, Parents and Diagnosed Young Adults.
Innocent Machines: Asperger's Syndrome and the Neurostructural Self.
Narration and Neuroscience: Encountering the Social on the "Last Frontier of Medicine".
On the Assembly Line: Neuroimaging Production in Clinical Practice.
A Stone in a Spaghetti Bowl: The Biological and Metaphorical Brain in Neuro-Oncology.
Is Depression a Brain Disorder? Neuroscience in Mental Health Care.
"We haven't Sliced Open anyone's Brain yet": Neuroscience, Embodiment and the Governance of Addiction.
Are we Receptive to Naturalistic Explanatory Models of our Disease Experience?
Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation to Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Parkinson's Disease.
Cognitive Enhancement? Exploring Modafinil use in Social Context.
Neuroscience and Medicalisation: Sociological Reflections on Memory, Medicine and the Brain.
Sociology of Neuroscience or Neurosociology?.
Lost and Found in Translation: Popular Neuroscience in the Emerging Neurodisciplines.
Field of Dreams: A Social History of Neuroethics.
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences.
Advances in medical sociology.