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So Human a Brain

Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences

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  1. Anne Harrington

    1. Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Knowledge of and by the Human Brain: Limits and Possibilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Neuroethological Perspectives on the Human Brain: From the Expression of Emotions to Intentional Signing and Speech

      • Detlev W. Ploog
      Pages 3-13

    3. Truth in Dreaming

      • Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
      Pages 14-36

    4. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Human Self

      • Stephen M. Kosslyn
      Pages 37-56

    5. Obtaining Knowledge of the Subjective Brain (“Epistemics”)

      • Paul D. MacLean
      Pages 57-70

    6. Morality and the Limits of Knowledge: A Neuropsychological Meditation

      • Jason W. Brown
      Pages 71-85

  3. Values and the Nature of the Neuroscientific Knowledge Game

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. What Is the Ethical Context of the Neurosciences?

      • H. Rodney Holmes
      Pages 89-109

    3. The Gendered Brain: Some Historical Perspectives

      • Londa L. Schiebinger
      Pages 110-120

    4. Walker Percy: Language, Neuropsychology, and Moral Tradition

      • Edward Manier
      Pages 121-137

    5. Walker Percy: Neuroscience and the Common Understanding

      • James H. Schwartz
      Pages 138-147

  4. Neuroscientific Knowledge and Social Accountability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Reconstructing the Brain: Justifications and Dilemmas in Fetal Neural Transplant Research

      • Alan Fine
      Pages 151-158

    3. Therapeutic Exuberance: A Double-Edged Sword

      • Elliot S. Valenstein
      Pages 159-178

    4. Brain Research, Animal Awareness, and Human Sensibility: Scientific and Social Dislocations

      • John Durant
      Pages 179-189

  5. Sociohistorical Perspectives on Values and Knowledge in the Brain Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Securing a Brain: The Contested Meanings of Kuru

      • Warwick Anderson
      Pages 193-203

    3. The Skin, the Skull, and the Self: Toward a Sociology of the Brain

      • Susan Leigh Star
      Pages 204-228

    4. Other “Ways of Knowing”: The Politics of Knowledge in Interwar German Brain Science

      • Anne Harrington
      Pages 229-244
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About this book

WALTER A. ROSENBLITH Footnotes to the Recent History of Neuroscience: Personal Reflections and Microstories The workshop upon which this volume is based offered me an opportunity to renew contact fairly painlessly with workers in the brain sciences, not just as a participant/observer but maybe as what might be called a teller of microstories. I had originally become curious about the brain by way of my wife's senior thesis, in which she attempted to relate electroencephalography to certain aspects of human behavior. As a then-budding physicist and communications engineer, I had barely heard about brain waves, nor had I studied physiology in a systematic way. My work on noise dealt with the effects of certain acoustical stimuli on biological structures and entire organisms. This was the period immediately after World War II when many scientists and engineers who had done applied work in the war effort were trying to find their way among the challenging new fields that were opening up. Francis Crick, among others, has described such a search taking place in the cafes of the "other" Cambridge, the one on the Cam. At that time the brain sciences, in his opinion, offered much less promise than molecular biology. However, he was sufficiently attracted by what they might eventually have to offer to keep an eye on them, and several decades later his work turned toward the brain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Anne Harrington

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: So Human a Brain

  • Book Subtitle: Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences

  • Editors: Anne Harrington

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0391-9

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3540-4Published: 01 January 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6740-9Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0391-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 355

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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