Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-51

  Slaby, Jan ^a   Choudhury, Suparna ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

"critical neuroscience" capturing productive tension; Accurately informed analyses of societal implications of neuroscience; Addiction, using ecological systems view; Assemblage, thickening of brain based phenomena; Concept of situated brain, challenging critical neuroscience; Critical neuroscience, spaces for debate, practitioners; Motivations and foundations; Neural basis of adolescent risk taking; Proposal for a critical neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885494522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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