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Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences.
Title:
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences.
Author:
Pickersgill, Martyn.
ISBN:
9781848558816
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Series:
Advances in Medical Sociology, 13 ; v.13

Advances in Medical Sociology, 13
Contents:
FRONT COVER -- SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE NEUROSCIENCES -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: NEUROSCIENCE, IDENTITY AND SOCIETY -- SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE NEUROSCIENCES -- REFERENCES -- PART I: NEUROSCIENCE AS CULTURE -- A CHILD SURROUNDS THIS BRAIN: THE FUTURE OF NEUROLOGICAL DIFFERENCE ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, PARENTS AND DIAGNOSED YOUNG ADULTS -- ENTERING NEUROSCIENCE -- MAKING KNOWLEDGE -- MAKING UP PEOPLE? -- CONSTRUCTING DATA -- DEVELOPING BRAINS -- EMERGENT EXPERTS -- CODA -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INNOCENT MACHINES: ASPERGER'S SYNDROME AND THE NEUROSTRUCTURAL SELF -- INTRODUCTION: ''IT'S NOT NEUROCHEMICAL. IT'S STRUCTURAL'' -- AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN THE HIERARCHY OF NEUROIDENTITIES -- BRAINHOODS OF BROOKFIELD -- MIND INTO MATTER: PSYCHOANALYTIC AND BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRIES -- BATTERIES ARE REALLY USEFUL: ASPERGER'S SYNDROME AND THE TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SELF -- PROCESSES OF EXEMPLIFICATION: CONSUMPTION, IDENTIFICATION, PRODUCTIVITY, AND REPRESENTATION -- THIS IS WHO I AM: NEUROSTRUCTURE AND THE IDENTITY POLITICS OF HARDWIRING -- BREAKABLE MIRRORS: MIMESIS AND MATERIALITY AT BROOKFIELD -- CONCLUSION: THE CHEMICAL AND THE STRUCTURAL -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- NARRATION AND NEUROSCIENCE: ENCOUNTERING THE SOCIAL ON THE ''LAST FRONTIER OF MEDICINE'' -- DIAGNOSING DISEASE: SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, AND NARRATIVES -- DATA AND METHODS -- UNCHARTED TERRITORIES: THE BIOLOGICAL AND THE SOCIAL IN EPILEPSY GENETICS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE: NEUROIMAGING PRODUCTION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE -- CONSTRUCTING NEUROIMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE -- ACCELERATION OF PRODUCTION -- PRODUCING DOCILE PATIENTS -- THE NEGOTIATION AND RESISTANCE OF PRODUCTION PROCESSES -- PROFESSIONAL HIERARCHIES: LIFE ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE.

GUARDIANS OF THE MAGNET -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A STONE IN A SPAGHETTI BOWL: THE BIOLOGICAL AND METAPHORICAL BRAIN IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY -- METHODOLOGY -- SOMETHING ABOUT BRAIN TUMOURS -- THE BIOMEDICALISED AND THE VISUALISED -- THE SPATIAL BRAIN -- OBJECTIFICATION IN THE CLINIC -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND ENHANCEMENT -- IS DEPRESSION A BRAIN DISORDER? NEUROSCIENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE -- DEPRESSION AS AN EXAMPLE -- FINNISH CASE -- CLINICAL BRICOLAGE -- ELEMENTS OF BIOLOGY -- DRUG TRAIL -- BEYOND SEROTONIN -- DISCUSSION: DEPRESSION TAKEN APART -- REFERENCES -- ''WE HAVEN'T SLICED OPEN ANYONE'S BRAIN YET'': NEUROSCIENCE, EMBODIMENT AND THE GOVERNANCE OF ADDICTION -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- PLEASURE: OPIOID RECEPTORS AND THE HIJACKED BRAIN -- RATIONALITY: THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND OPIOID INDUCED BRAIN INJURY -- NEUROPLASTICITY: THE NEURAL CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK -- VOLITION: CHARACTER FLAW OR BONA FIDE BRAIN DISEASE? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ARE WE RECEPTIVE TO NATURALISTIC EXPLANATORY MODELS OF OUR DISEASE EXPERIENCE? APPLICATIONS OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION TO OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDERS AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL-ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS AMONG THE STIMULATED PATIENTS: AN UNDEFINED ILL-BEING -- SENSITIVITY TO NATURALISTIC EXPLANATORY MODELS? -- OCD: A SHORT HISTORY OF MORALITY TO THE POINT OF ABSURDITY -- PATIENTS' CURSE DISPELLED BY NEUROSCIENCE? -- CONCLUSION: THE REVENGE OF THE LOOPING EFFECT -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT? EXPLORING MODAFINIL USE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS 'COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT'? -- MAKING MODAFINIL -- MODAFINIL IN THE WORKPLACE -- MODAFINIL AS A STUDY AID -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART III: NEUROSCIENCE, THEORY AND SOCIETY.

NEUROSCIENCE AND MEDICALISATION: SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON MEMORY, MEDICINE AND THE BRAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- MEDICALISATION THESIS -- BIOMEDICALISATION BEYOND MEDICALISATION -- NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROCULTURE AND NEUROFUTURES -- NEUROCULTURE AND MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- SOCIOLOGY OF NEUROSCIENCE OR NEUROSOCIOLOGY? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SOCIOLOGY OF NEUROSCIENCE AS SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE -- NEUROSOCIOLOGY AS ANOTHER 'NEURO-'SCIENCE? -- NEUROSCIENCE METHODS AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION: POPULAR NEUROSCIENCE IN THE EMERGING NEURODISCIPLINES -- INTRODUCTION -- SCIENCE IN TRANSLATION -- POPULAR NEUROSCIENCE IN EMERGENT NEUROSCHOLARSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FIELD OF DREAMS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF NEUROETHICS -- INTRODUCTION -- FINDING A PLACE FOR NEUROETHICS -- INTERPRETING THE SHORT HISTORY OF NEUROETHICS -- STAKING THE CLAIM: THE STRUGGLE TO FIND A PLACE FOR A NEW ETHICAL SPECIALTY -- NEUROETHICS TODAY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
This volume addresses this need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.
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