Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Neuroscience, Identity and Society xiii
Part I Neuroscience as Culture
A Child Surrounds this Brain: The Future of Neurological Difference According to Scientists, Parents and Diagnosed young Adults Rayna Rapp 3
Innocent Machines: Asperger's Syndrome and the Neurostructural Self Elizabeth Fein 27
Narration and neuroscience: Encountering the Social on the "Last Frontier of Medicine" Sara Shostak Miranda Waggoner 51
On the Assembly Line: Neuroimaging Production in Clinical Practice Kelly Joyce 75
A Stone in a Spaghetti Bowl: The Biological and Metaphorical Brain in Neuro-Oncology Sky Gross 99
Part II Health, Illness and Enhancement
Is Depression a Brain Disorder? Neuroscience in Mental Health Care Ilpo Helén 123
"We Haven't Sliced Open anyone's Brain Yet": Neuroscience, Embordiment and the Governance of Addiction Julie Netherland 153
Are we Receptive to Naturalistic Explanatory Models of our Disease Experience? Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation to Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Parkinson's Disease Baptiste Moutaud 179
Cognitive Enhancement? Exploring Modafinil use in Social Context Catherine M. Coveney 203
Part III Neuroscience, Theory and Society
Neuroscience and Medicalisation: Sociological Reflections on Memory, Medicine and the brain Simon J. Williams Stephen Katz Paul Martin 231
Sociology of Neuroscience or Neurosociology? Christian von Scheve 255
Lost and Found in Translation: Popular Neuroscience in the emerging Neurodisciplines Jenell M. Johnson Melissa M. Littlefield 279
Field of Dreams: A Social History of Neuroethics Erin C. Conrad Raymond De Vries 299