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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Choudhury, Suparna
• Slaby, Jan

Titel

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Newark: Wiley-Blackwell

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Critical Neurosciencebrings 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 neuroscienceFurthers the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanitiesTranscends traditional scepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about scienceFeatures contributions from eminent scholars including Steven Rose, Joseph Dumit, Laurence Kirmayer, Shaun Gallagher, Fernando Vidal, Allan Young and Joan Chiao