Critical Neuroscience

Download or read book Critical Neuroscience written by Suparna Choudhury and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. This text’s original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience while furthering the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Critical Neuroscience transcends traditional skepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about science.