Brain culture : neuroscience and popular media / Davi Johnson Thornton.

  • Thornton, Davi Johnson, 1978-
Date:
[2011], ©2011
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Publication/Creation

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

vii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

The rhetorical brain -- Visualizing the new brain -- Practical neuroscience and brain-based self-help -- Babies, blank slates, and brain building -- Pills, power, and the neuroscience of everyday life -- Mental health care, the rhetoric of recovery, and entrepreneurial lives -- The brain is the frontier: the subjectifications of neuroscience.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PI /THO
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ISBN

  • 9780813550138
  • 0813550130
  • 9780813550121
  • 0813550122