Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences -

Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences

Buch | Softcover
366 Seiten
2012
Emerald Group Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78052-632-4 (ISBN)
81,95 inkl. MwSt
The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices - they offer up various ways of thinking about mind, body and society. This title casts light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience. It reflects on the insights the neurosciences have to offer sociology.

Introduction: Neuroscience, Identity and Society. 
A Child Surrounds this Brain: The Future of Neurological Difference According to Scientists, Parents and Diagnosed Young Adults. 
Innocent Machines: Asperger's Syndrome and the Neurostructural Self.
Narration and Neuroscience: Encountering the Social on the "Last Frontier of Medicine". 

On the Assembly Line: Neuroimaging Production in Clinical Practice. 

A Stone in a Spaghetti Bowl: The Biological and Metaphorical Brain in Neuro-Oncology. 

Is Depression a Brain Disorder? Neuroscience in Mental Health Care.  
"We haven't Sliced Open anyone's Brain yet": Neuroscience, Embodiment and the Governance of Addiction. 

Are we Receptive to Naturalistic Explanatory Models of our Disease Experience? 
Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation to Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Parkinson's Disease.  
Cognitive Enhancement? Exploring Modafinil use in Social Context.  
Neuroscience and Medicalisation: Sociological Reflections on Memory, Medicine and the Brain. 

Sociology of Neuroscience or Neurosociology?.  
Lost and Found in Translation: Popular Neuroscience in the Emerging Neurodisciplines.  
Field of Dreams: A Social History of Neuroethics. 
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences. 
Advances in medical sociology.

Reihe/Serie Advances in Medical Sociology
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Barbara Katz Rothman
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10 1-78052-632-6 / 1780526326
ISBN-13 978-1-78052-632-4 / 9781780526324
Zustand Neuware
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