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How the new brain sciences are transforming our understanding of what it means to be human
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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Auteur
Nikolas Rose is professor of sociology and head of the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine at King's College London. His books include The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton). Joelle M. Abi-Rached is a PhD candidate in the history of science at Harvard University.
Contenu
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Human Science? 23
One The Neuromolecular Brain 25
A Neuromolecular and Plastic Brain 51
Two The Visible Invisible 53
The New Engines of Brain Visualization 80
Three What's Wrong with Their Mice? 82
Life as Creation 108
Four All in the Brain? 110
Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis 137
Five The Social Brain 141
Governing Social Brains 160
Six The Antisocial Brain 164
Governing Antisocial Brains 196
Seven Personhood in a Neurobiological Age 199
Caring for the Neurobiological Self 223
Conclusion Managing Brains, Minds, and Selves 225
Coda: The Human Sciences in a Neurobiological Age 232
Appendix How We Wrote This Book 235
Notes 237
References 277
Index 325