商品簡介
Citing efforts to map the brain, to capitalize on the vast datasets emerging from contemporary neuroscience, and to develop computing power to simulate neural function, social and political geographer Pykett explores the effects of this this brain culture on the governance of citizens in Britain. She outlines several social spheres in which the neurological, psychological, and behavioral sciences inform policy and practice, and examines academic disciplines and modes of understanding that have themselves been informed by a neural turn. Brain culture can only be understood within the specific geo-historical context of the brain world, she contends, and this inherent circularity poses a significant challenge both to neuroscientific attempts to know the biophysical brain, and to social, scientific, arts, and humanities research that sets out to comprehend brain culture. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Jessica Pykett is a senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Birmingham.
