Making objective facts from intimate relations: The case of neuroscience and its entanglements with volunteers

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 86-103

  Cohn, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empathy; Intimacy; Neuroscience; Social brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749157121     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695108095513     Document Type: Article

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