The neuroscientific turn : transdisciplinarity in the age of the brain / Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface: A Neuro-Pivot -- Judy Illes; Introduction: Theorizing the Neuroscientific Turn-Critical Perspectives on a Translational Discipline -- Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson; Part 1. The Neuroscientific Turn in Context; 1. "The Paradise of Non-Experts": The Neuroscientific Turn of the 1840s United States -- Justine S. Murison; 2. The Performativity of a Historical Brain Event: Revisiting 1517 Strassburg -- Jameson Kismet Bell; 3. The Neural Metaphor -- Kélina Gotman; Part 2. The Neuroscientific Turn in Practice.

4. Brainhood, Selfhood, or "Meat with a Point of View": The Value of Fiction for Neuroscientific Research and Neurological Medicine -- Sarah Birge5. Neuroscience and the Quest for God -- Scott E. Hendrix and Christopher J. May; 6. Literacy in a Biocultural World: Integrating Sociocultural Studies of Literacy and Neuroscientific Research -- Gwen Gorzelsky; 7. Pragmatic Neuroethics and Neuroscience's Potential to Radically Change Ethics -- Eric Racine and Emma Zimmerman; 8. Fast-Moving Objects and Their Consequences: A Response to the Neuroscientific Turn in Practice -- Anne Beaulieu.

Part 3. Critical Responses to the Neuroscientific Turn9. Neuroeconomics: A Cautionary Primer -- James Niels Rosenquist and Casey Rothschild; 10. Functional Brain Imaging: Neuro-Turnor Wrong Turn? -- Susan M. Fitzpatrick; 11. A Clinical Neuroscientist Looks Neuroskeptically at Neuroethics in the Neuroworld -- Peter J. Whitehouse; 12. The Mind-Sciences in a Literature Classroom -- Bruce Michelson; Afterword: Twisting the Neurohelix -- Joseph Dumit; Contributors; Index.

The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of the hottest topics of study--not only for scientists but also, increasingly, for scholars from the humanities and social sciences. While the popular press has simultaneously lauded and loathed the coming "neurorevolution," the academy has yet to voice any collective speculations about whether there is any coherence to this neuroscientific turn; what this turn will and should produce; and what implications it has for inter- or transdisciplinary inquiry. Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson provide an initial framework for this most recent of "turns" by bringing together 14 original essays by scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and neurosciences. The resulting collection will appeal to neuroscientists curious about their colleagues' interest in their work; scholars and students both in established neurodisciplines and in disciplines such as sociology or English wondering about how to apply neuroscience findings to their home disciplines; and to science, technology, and society scholars and students interested in the roles of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the construction of knowledge.

English.

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