Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences

Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences

Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences

Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences

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Overview

This volume addresses the 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780526324
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date: 07/30/2012
Series: Advances in Medical Sociology , #13
Pages: 366
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

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

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