Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. This text s original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience while furthering the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Critical Neuroscience transcends traditional skepticism, introducing novel ideas about how to be critical in and about science.

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. This text's original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience while furthering the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Critical Neuroscience transcends traditional skepticism, introducing novel ideas about 'how to be critical' in and about science.

Credits viiList of Illustrations viiiAbout the Editors xList of Contributors xiPreface xiiiIntroduction: Critical Neuroscience--Between Lifeworld and Laboratory 1Suparna Choudhury and Jan SlabyPart I--Motivations and Foundations 271 Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience 29Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury2 The Need for a Critical Neuroscience: From Neuroideology to Neurotechnology 53Steven Rose3 Against First Nature: Critical Theory and Neuroscience 67Martin Hartmann4 Scanning the Lifeworld: Toward a Critical Neuroscience of Action and Interaction 85Shaun GallagherPart II--Histories of the Brain 1115 Toys are Us: Models and Metaphors in Brain Research 113Cornelius Borck6 The Neuromance of Cerebral History 135Max Stadler7 Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain 159Allan YoungPart III--Neuroscience in Context: From Laboratory to Lifeworld 1778 Disrupting Images: Neuroscientific Representations in the Lives of Psychiatric Patients 179Simon Cohn9 Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind 195Joseph Dumit10 Radical Reductions: Neurophysiology, Politics and Personhood in Russian Addiction Medicine 227Eugene Raikhel11 Delirious Brain Chemistry and Controlled Culture: Exploring the Contextual Mediation of Drug Effects 253Nicolas LanglitzPart IV--Situating the Brain: From Lifeworld back to Laboratory? 26312 From Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup 265Amir Raz13 The Salmon of Doubt: Six Months of Methodological Controversy within Social Neuroscience 273Daniel S. Margulies14 Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice 287Joan Y. Chiao and Bobby K. CheonPart V--Beyond Neural Correlates: Ecological Approaches to Psychiatry 30515 Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism 307Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold16 Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain? 331Thomas Fuchs17 Are there Neural Correlates of Depression? 345Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega18 The Future of Critical Neuroscience 367Laurence J. KirmayerIndex 385