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

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Critical 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.

• Original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience
• Furthers the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities
• Transcends traditional scepticism, introducing novel ideas about 'how to be critical' in and about science
• Features contributions from eminent scholars including Steven Rose, Joseph Dumit, Laurence Kirmayer, Shaun Gallagher, Fernando Vidal, Allan Young and Joan Chiao