Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind

350 Pages·2013·4.079 MB·English

by  Nikolas Rose, Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Neuro

Neuro
The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind
Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi- Rached
PRiNcetoN UNiveRsity PRess
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Rose, Nikolas S.
Neuro : the new brain sciences and the management of the mind / Nikolas Rose
and Joelle M. Abi-Rached.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14960-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-691-14961-5
(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Neuropsychology. I. Abi-Rached, Joelle M., 1979– II. Title.
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For my parents, May and Maroun.
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contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
introduction 1
Beyond Cartesianism? 3
Governing through the Brain 6
Our Argument 9
Human Science? 23
One the Neuromolecular Brain 25
How Should One Do the History of the Neurosciences? 28
Infrastructure 38
A Neuromolecular Style of Thought 41
Enter Plasticity 47
A Neuromolecular and Plastic Brain 51
Two the visible invisible 53
The Clinical Gaze 55
Inscribed on the Body Itself 56
Open Up a Few Brains 61
Seeing the Living Brain 65
The Epidemiology of Visualization 74
The New Engines of Brain Visualization 80
Three What’s Wrong with their Mice? 82
Artificiality? 85
Models1, Models2, Models3, Models4 (and Possibly Models5) 92
The Specificity of the Human 102
Translation 104
Life as Creation 108
Four All in the Brain? 110
To Define True Madness 113
The Burden of Mental Disorder 125
All in the Brain? 130
Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis 137
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Five the social Brain 141
The “Social Brain Hypothesis” 143
Pathologies of the Social Brain 148
Social Neuroscience 151
Social Neuroscience beyond Neuroscience 156
Governing Social Brains 160
Six the Antisocial Brain 164
Embodied Criminals 167
Inside the Living Brain 173
Neurolaw? 177
The Genetics of Control 180
Nipping Budding Psychopaths in the Bud 190
Sculpting the Brain in Those Incredible Years 192
Governing Antisocial Brains 196
Seven Personhood in a Neurobiological Age 199
The Challenged Self 202
From the Pathological to the Normal 204
The Self: From Soul to Brain 213
A Mutation in Ethics and Self- Technologies? 219
Caring for the Neurobiological Self 223
Conclusion Managing Brains, Minds, and selves 225
A Neurobiological Complex 225
Brains In Situ? 227
Coda: The Human Sciences in a Neurobiological Age 232
Appendix How We Wrote this Book 235
Notes 237
References 277
Index 325
Acknowledgments
This book arises from research funded by the United Kingdom’s Economic
and Social Research Council in the form of a three-y ear professorial research
fellowship to Nikolas Rose (grant number RES- 051- 27- 0194), and we are
happy to acknowledge this support and the opportunities that it provided.
We have also benefited greatly from the work with our colleagues in the Eu-
ropean Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), funded by the European
Science Foundation (ESF), and the numerous events organized by this net-
work that bring researchers from the human sciences together with leading
neuroscience researchers in the spirit of critical friendship within which we
have written this book: thanks to Trudy Dehue, Giovanni Frazzetto, Corne-
lius Gross, Ilpo Helén, Kenneth Hugdahl, Ilse Kryspin- Exner, Klaus- Peter
Lesch, Linsey McGoey, Cordula Nitsch, João Arriscado Nunes, Andreas
Roep storff, Ilina Singh, and Scott Vrecko. We would also like to acknowledge
our lively conversations with Francisco Ortega and Fernando Vidal, and to
thank as well the many members of the international network of social sci-
entists working in the field of neuroscience for so many productive discus-
sions on its social dimensions. The research for this book was carried out
within the wonderfully supportive community of the BIOS Research Centre
at the London School of Economics, who also helped with organization of the
final “Brain, Self, and Society” conference and follow- up workshop, “Person-
hood in a Neurobiological Age,” held in London on September 13– 14, 2010:
special thanks go to Btihaj Ajana, Valentina Amorese, Rachel Bell, Astrid
Christoffersen- Deb, Megan Clinch, Caitlin Connors, Des Fitzgerald, Amy
Hinterberger, John MacArtney, Sara Tocchetti, and our excellent administra-
tor Victoria Dyas and outstanding manager, Sabrina Fernandez. We also wish
to thank our editorial team at Princeton University Press for their support for
this book and their careful work on our text.
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