Neuro : The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind


Nikolas. Rose
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2013.
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1 online resource (353 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Beyond Cartesianism?; Governing through the Brain; Our Argument; Human Science?; One The Neuromolecular Brain; How Should One Do the History of the Neurosciences?; Infrastructure; A Neuromolecular Style of Thought; Enter Plasticity; A Neuromolecular and Plastic Brain; Two The Visible Invisible; The Clinical Gaze; Inscribed on the Body Itself; Open Up a Few Brains; Seeing the Living Brain; The Epidemiology of Visualization; The New Engines of Brain Visualization; Three What's Wrong with Their Mice?. - Artificiality?Models1, Models2, Models3, Models4 (and Possibly Models5); The Specificity of the Human; Translation; Life as Creation; Four All in the Brain?; To Define True Madness; The Burden of Mental Disorder; All in the Brain?; Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis; Five The Social Brain; The "Social Brain Hypothesis"; Pathologies of the Social Brain; Social Neuroscience; Social Neuroscience beyond Neuroscience; Governing Social Brains; Six The Antisocial Brain; Embodied Criminals; Inside the Living Brain; Neurolaw?; The Genetics of Control; Nipping Budding Psychopaths in the Bud. - Sculpting the Brain in Those Incredible YearsGoverning Antisocial Brains; Seven Personhood in a Neurobiological Age; The Challenged Self; From the Pathological to the Normal; The Self: From Soul to Brain; A Mutation in Ethics and Self-Technologies?; Caring for the Neurobiological Self; Conclusion Managing Brains, Minds, and Selves; A Neurobiological Complex; Brains In Situ?; Coda: The Human Sciences in a Neurobiological Age; Appendix How We Wrote This Book; Notes; References; Index. - The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the management of human conduct. Neuro describes the key developments--theoretical, technological, economic, and biopolitical--that have enabled the neurosciences to gain such traction outside the laboratory. It explores the ways neurobiological conceptions of personhood are influencing everyt
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978-0-691-14960-8. - 978-0-691-14961-5

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