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Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience
Suparna Choudhury (Editor), Jan Slaby (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3328-2
Hardcover
408 pages
November 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Reviews
About the editors.

About the contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Critical Neuroscience: Between Lifeworld and Laboratory (Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby).

Part I – Motivations and Foundations.

Chapter 1: Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience(Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury).

Chapter 2: The Need for a Critical Neuroscience. From Neuroideology to Neurotechnology (Steven Rose).

Chapter 3: Against First Nature. Critical Theory and Neuroscience (Martin Hartmann).

Chapter 4: Scanning the Lifeworld: Toward a Critical Neuroscience of Action and Interaction (Shaun Gallagher).

Part II – Histories of the Brain.

Chapter 5: Toys are Us. Models and Metaphors in Brain Science (Cornelius Borck).

Chapter 6: The Neuromance of Cerebral History(Max Stadler).

Chapter 7: Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain(Allan Young).

Part III – Neuroscience in Context: From Laboratory to Lifeworld.

Chapter 8: Disrupting Images: Neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients (Simon Cohn).

Chapter 9: Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind(Joseph Dumit).

Chapter 10: Radical Reductions. Neurophysiology, Politics, and Personhood in Russian Addiction Medicine(Eugene Raikhel).

Chapter 11: Delirious Brain Chemistry and Controlled Culture: Exploring the Contextual Mediation of Drug Effects (Nicolas Langlitz).

Part IV – Situating the brain in context: from lifeworld back to laboratory?

Chapter 12: Critical Neuroscience: From Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup (Amir Raz).

Chapter 13: The Salmon of Doubt: Six Months of Methodological Controversy within Social Neuroscience(Daniel Margulies).

Chapter 14: Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice(Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. Cheon).

Part V – Beyond neural correlates: Ecological approaches to psychiatry.

Chapter 15: Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism(Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold).

Chapter 16: Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain?(Thomas Fuchs).

Chapter 17: Are there neural correlates of depression?(Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega).

Chapter 18: The Future of Critical Neuroscience (Laurence J. Kirmayer).

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