The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
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Neuroethics, neuroeconomics, neurohistory, neuroliterature, neuromarketing, neurophilosophy, neuropolitics. We are well beyond the decade of the brain, and deep into the era of the neurologism. Is there any field of human knowledge or endeavor which has not sought enhancement by adding the prefix neuro?
Melissa Littlefield and Jenell Johnson have put together what looks like an intriguing and important tour of the emerging cultural neuroterrain: fourteen essays by a diverse array of scholar from the humanities, social and the neurosciences.
Full description and table of contents from the University of Michigan Press.
Posted on August 6, 2012, in Books and tagged neurologisms, neuroscience. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I am interested by this subject. I will order Melissa Littlefield and Jenell Johnson’ book.
Raymond Tallis bravely covered this ground in ‘Aping Mankind’ . . . his arguments against simplified ‘neuromania’ were broadly based and requiring academic reply.
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