Neuro The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind

Name: Neuro The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind
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ISBN: 9780691149615

ISBN-10: 0691149615

ISBN-13: 9780691149615

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nikolas Rose, Joelle M. Abi-Rached

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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.Neurodescribes 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.…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction


Beyond Cartesianism?


Governing through the Brain


Our Argument


Human Science?



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



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



What's Wrong with Their Mice?


Artificiality?


Models<sup>1</sup>, Models<sup>2</sup>, Models<sup>3</sup>, Models<sup>4</sup> (and Possibly Models<sup>5</sup>)


The Specificity of the Human


Translation


Life as Creation



All in the Brain?


To Define True Madness


The Burden of Mental Disorder


All in the Brain?


Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis



The Social Brain


The "Social Brain Hypothesis"


Pathologies of the Social Brain


Social Neuroscience


Social Neuroscience beyond Neuroscience


Governing Social Brains



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 Years


Governing Antisocial Brains



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