Neuroscience, power and culture: An introduction

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Vrecko, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Brain; Culture; Neuroethics; Neuroscience; Power; Psychopharmacology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS MEDIUM; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; POLICY; POLITICS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; BRAIN; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MASS MEDIA; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; POLITICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 77649301474     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695109354395     Document Type: Article

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