TY - BOOK ID - 30721604 TI - Sociological reflections on the neurosciences AU - Pickersgill, Martyn AU - Keulen, Ira Van PY - 2011 SN - 1848558813 1848550812 9786612500190 9786613354877 128335487X 1282500198 1848558805 1780526326 1848550804 9781848558816 9781283354875 9781848558809 9781848550810 9781848550803 PB - Bingley, U.K. Emerald DB - UniCat KW - Neurosciences -- Periodicals. KW - Neurosciences. KW - Epidemics -- Political aspects. KW - Epidemics -- Social aspects. KW - Epidemics KW - Social medicine. KW - Medical care KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Social KW - Public health KW - Public welfare KW - Sociology KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - Disease outbreaks KW - Diseases KW - Outbreaks of disease KW - Pestilences KW - Communicable diseases KW - Social aspects. KW - Political aspects. KW - Social aspects KW - Outbreaks KW - Pandemics KW - Social Medicine. KW - Public Health KW - Sociology of health KW - Neurosciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30721604 AB - The neurosciences are the new cutting edge in biomedicine, and this is the first book to take a sociological imagination to this field. The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices they offer up new ways of thinking about mind, body and society. Up to now, debate about the new brain sciences has been limited within sociology. As the neurosciences gain ever more traction within professional arenas, policy processes and popular culture, it is time to go beyond the primarily speculative and theoretical analyses we have had to date, and bring our sociological imagination to bear. This collection addresses this need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience. At the same time, this volume reflects on the insights the neurosciences have to offer sociology. With cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars from Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, the UK and the USA, Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences will be a benchmark text in the new sociology of neuroscience. ER -