Introduction: Critical Neuroscience-Between Lifeworld and Laboratory

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-26

  Choudhury, Suparna ^a   Slaby, Jan ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

"4EA approach" mind, embodied, embedded, affective; "big riddle of humanity," brain processes, subjective experience; "neurorevolution" to "conquer brain disease"; "neurotalk" pervading our everyday lives; Challenges, to narrow neurobiological programs; Critical neuroscience, between lifeworld and laboratory; Current problematizations of neuroscience; Neural processes, realizing subjective experience; Reciprocal interactions, neuroscience and social life; Self reflexivity of critical perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885551174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359     Document Type: Editorial

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