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Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (New Human Frontiers)
Steven Rose
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Description for Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (New Human Frontiers)
Paperback. Neuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation. Series: New Human Frontiers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JMM; MJN; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 125 x 32. Weight in Grams: 204.
Neuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation. With its promise to cure physical and social ills, government sees neuroscience as a tool to increase the 'mental capital' of the children of the deprived and workless. It sets aside intensifying poverty and inequality, instead claiming that basing children's rearing and education on brain science will transform both the child's and the nation's health and wealth. ... Read more
Neuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation. With its promise to cure physical and social ills, government sees neuroscience as a tool to increase the 'mental capital' of the children of the deprived and workless. It sets aside intensifying poverty and inequality, instead claiming that basing children's rearing and education on brain science will transform both the child's and the nation's health and wealth. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Human Frontiers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745689326
SKU
V9780745689326
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About Steven Rose
Hilary Rose is Emerita Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bradford. Together with Steven Rose, she is author of Genes, Cells and Brains and Alas, Poor Darwin . Steven Rose is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at The Open University. He was co-founder of the British Neuroscience Association, and has won numerous prestigious awards, ... Read more
Reviews for Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (New Human Frontiers)
This book is a bold, forthright and courageous commentary on looming cultural trends a true tour de force. Scientific American An important corrective to the rise of neuroscientific ideas, and to the neoliberal ideology that spawned them. Counterfire