Introduction: Theorizing the Neuroscientific Turn—Critical Perspectives on a Translational Discipline

The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-26

  Littlefield, Melissa M ^a,b   Johnson, Jenell M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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