The Neuromance of Cerebral History

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-158

  Stadler, Max ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

"critical" neuroscience; "ESB" for instance, or electrical stimulation of the brain; Brain, or rather the brain centeredness; Brain centric vision; Cyber romance, cybernetics framing narratives of brains; Electronic tools of brain science; Neuromance and contemporary "neurotalk"; Neuromance of cerebral history; New cerebro biologism into all manner of social domains; Sciences of human brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885513099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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