Book ID: CBB001552044

Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (2013)

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Rose, Nikolas S. (Author)
Abi-Rached, Joelle M. (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 335 pp.
Language: English

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 everything from child rearing to criminal justice, and are transforming the ways we "know ourselves" as human beings. In this emerging neuro-ontology, we are not "determined" by our neurobiology: on the contrary, it appears that we can and should seek to improve ourselves by understanding and acting on our brains. Neuro examines the implications of this emerging trend, weighing the promises against the perils, and evaluating some widely held concerns about a neurobiological "colonization" of the social and human sciences. Despite identifying many exaggerated claims and premature promises, Neuro argues that the openness provided by the new styles of thought taking shape in neuroscience, with its contemporary conceptions of the neuromolecular, plastic, and social brain, could make possible a new and productive engagement between the social and brain sciences.

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Authors & Contributors
Tomaiuolo, Francesco
Wexler, Anna
Cerasa, Antonio
Aarli, J. A.
Silbey, Susan S.
Biess, Frank
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain
Neurology
Behavioral sciences
Neurophysiology
Neuroanatomy
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
17th century
Places
Germany
Austria
Great Britain
Institutions
World Federation of Neurology
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