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Zusatztext "What strikes one when reading Neuro is how well the authors know what they are writing about. Their strategy is one of informed, balanced assessment, carefully weighing promises against perils, methodological conundrums against technical breakthroughs, genuine in sights against promissory overclaim—all against a well-researched background of historical developments, institutional and personal entanglements, discursive surrounds, and political and institutional pressures." ---Jan Slaby, Rezensionen Informationen zum Autor Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached Klappentext "The 'neurofication' of the humanities, social sciences, public policy, and the law has attracted promoters and detractors. What we have lacked until now is a critical but open-minded look at 'neuro.' This is what Rose and Abi-Rached have given us in this thoughtful and well-researched book. They do not jump on the neuro bandwagon, but instead offer a clear accounting of its appeal, its precedents in psychology and genetics, its genuine importance, and ultimately its limitations. A fascinating and important book." --Martha J. Farah, University of Pennsylvania " Neuro makes a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the impact of the brain sciences on social and cultural processes. The scholarship throughout is brilliant. This book gives us extremely perceptive, detailed, and illuminating analyses of what is actually being claimed in the various branches of the neurosciences. It will attract a great deal of interest and controversy." --Emily Martin, author of Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture "I enjoyed reading this book. It provides an interesting and comprehensive map of the many sciences and quasi-sciences that have embraced the 'neuro' prefix. I also appreciate how Rose and Abi-Rached manage to examine the explosion of 'neuros' with a critical eye, but without dismissing the genuine prospects that it may hold." --Michael E. Lynch, Cornell University Zusammenfassung 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 k Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Beyond Cartesianism? 3 Governing through the Brain 6 Our Argument 9 Human Science? 23 One The Neuromolecular Brain 25 How Should One Do the History of the Neurosciences? 28 Infrastructure 38 A Neuromolecular Style of Thought 41 Enter Plasticity 47 A Neuromolecular and Plastic Brain 51 Two The Visible Invisible 53 The Clinical Gaze 55 Inscribed on the Body Itself 56 Open Up a Few Brains 61 Seeing the Living Brain 65 The Epidemiology of Visualization 74 The New Engines of Brain Visualization 80 Three What's Wrong with Their Mice? 82 Artificiality? 85 Models1! Models2! Models3! Models4 (and Possibly Models5) 92 The Specificity of the Human 102 Translation 104 Life as Creation 108 Four All in the Brain? 110 To Define True Madness 113 The Burden of Mental Disorder 125 All in the Brain? 130 Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis 137 Five The Social Brain 141 The "Social Brain Hypothesis" 143 Pathologies of the Social Brain 148 Social Neuroscience 151 Social Neuroscience beyond Neuroscience 156 Governing Social Brains 160 Six The Antisocial Brain 164 Embodied Criminals 167 Inside the Living Brain 173 Neurolaw? 177 The Genetics of Control 180 Nipping Budding Psychopaths in the Bud 190 Sculpting the Brain in Those Incredible Years 192 Governing Antisocial Brains 196 Seven Personhood in a Neurobiological Age 199 The Challenged Self 202 From the Pathological to ...
