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

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a collective effort to understand the impact of the intellectual, economic and political conditions on current views of the brain, and how these models may in turn impact society. The editors create an interdisciplinary forum, within which contributors engage in fruitful debate about the potential of tools, the complexities of data interpretation and the social, political and cultural context of neuroscience research.
Spanning such diverse fields as philosophy, anthropology, history of science and psychiatry, the book traces the history of contemporary models of the brain, and brings laboratory observations into the forefront of neuroscientific research. Contributions explore the problem spaces in which knowledge from neuroscience is called upon to classify ′kinds′ of people, and the ways in which these findings impact on society in a diverse range of settings. Together, they engage the social sciences and humanities with experimental neuroscience, and address fundamental questions of how to critique neuroscience in society.
With illuminating insights and deep scholarly rigour, Critical Neuroscience offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective that aims to enrich our understanding of the brain as situated in the body and world, and neuroscience as embedded in a complex cultural context.

Spis treści:
About the editors.
About the contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Critical Neuroscience: Between Lifeworld and Laboratory (Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby).
Part I – Motivations and Foundations.
Chapter 1: Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience(Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury).
Chapter 2: The Need for a Critical Neuroscience. From Neuroideology to Neurotechnology (Steven Rose).
Chapter 3: Against First Nature. Critical Theory and Neurosc ience (Martin Hartmann).
Chapter 4: Scanning the Lifeworld: Toward a Critical Neuroscience of Action and Interaction (Shaun Gallagher).
Part II – Histories of the Brain.
Chapter 5: Toys are Us. Models and Metaphors in Brain Science (Cornelius Borck).
Chapter 6: The Neuromance of Cerebral History(Max Stadler).
Chapter 7: Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain(Allan Young).
Part III – Neuroscience in Context: From Laboratory to Lifeworld.
Chapter 8: Disrupting Images: Neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients (Simon Cohn).
Chapter 9: Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind(Joseph Dumit).
Chapter 10: Radical Reductions. Neurophysiology, Politics, and Personhood in Russian Addiction Medicine(Eugene Raikhel).
Chapter 11: Delirious Brain Chemistry and Controlled Culture: Exploring the Contextual Mediation of Drug Effects (Nicolas Langlitz).
Part IV – Situating the brain in context: from lifeworld back to laboratory?
Chapter 12: Critical Neuroscience: From Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup (Amir Raz).
Chapter 13: The Salmon of Doubt: Six Months of Methodological Controversy within Social Neuroscience(Daniel Margulies).
Chapter 14: Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice(Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. Cheon).
Part V – Beyond neural correlates: Ecological approaches to psychiatry.
Chapter 15: Re–Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism(Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold).
Chapter 16: Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain?(Thomas Fuchs).
Chapter 17: Are there neural correlates of depression?(Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega).
Chapter 18: The Future of Critical Neuroscience (Laurence J. Kirmayer).

Nota biograficzna:
Su parna Choudhury is Junior Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Berlin Institute for Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Germany. Her research examines the emergence of the ‘neurological adolescent′. She has also published on cultural neuroscience and topics at the intersection of neuroscience and society.
Jan Slaby is Junior Professor in Philosophy of Mind and Emotion at Free University Berlin, Germany. The author of a German–language book exploring the world–disclosing nature of human emotions, he has also been involved in research and teaching on the philosophy of psychiatry, with a particular focus on affective disorders and background feelings.

Okładka tylna:
Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a collective effort to understand the impact of the intellectual, economic and political conditions on current views of the brain, and how these models may in turn impact society. The editors create an interdisciplinary forum, within which contributors engage in fruitful debate about the potential of tools, the complexities of data interpretation and the social, political and cultural context of neuroscience research.
Spanning such diverse fields as philosophy, anthropology, history of science and psychiatry, the book traces the history of contemporary models of the brain, and brings laboratory observations into the forefront of neuroscientific research. Contributions explore the problem spaces in which knowledge from neuroscience is called upon to classify ′kinds′ of people, and the ways in which these findings impact on society in a diverse range of settings. Together, they engage the social sciences and humanities with experimental neuroscience, and address fundamental questions of how to critique neuroscience in society.
With illuminating insights and deep schola rly rigour, Critical Neuroscience offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective that aims to enrich our understanding of the brain as situated in the body and world, and neuroscience as embedded in a complex cultural context.