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Neurocultures: Glimpses into an Expanding Universe

Neurocultures: Glimpses into an Expanding Universe

Ortega, Francisco
Vidal, Fernando

Paperback

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 3631598556
ISBN13: 9783631598559
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jan 6 2011
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Neurocultures offers glimpses into an expanding universe of knowledge, beliefs and practices characterized by the conviction that human activity is governed by the structure and functioning of the brain. The 1990s were the Decade of the Brain, and the first hundred years of the new millennium have been proclaimed its Century. Described as the most complex of all organs, the brain has become a major icon of contemporary culture. Brain imaging technologies are used in a large number of disciplines, and are increasingly applied in settings of potential social and legal relevance. It is often proclaimed that the neurosciences will bring about major transformations in notions and practices of the human in areas as diverse as spirituality and self-help, marketing, the law, education, or the classification and treatment of mental disease. Neurocultures explores these expectations, their history, their contexts, and the debates they raise, in a broad range of fields, including enhancement, meditation, neuroethics, the social brain, psychedelic research, psychoanalysis, psychiatric and neurological conditions, and cinema and literature.

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