Rose - Neuro

Neuro

Neuro

The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind

Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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.

QP360.R655 2013

612.8dc23 2012023222

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This book has been composed in Minion Pro and Ideal Sans

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For Diana, as always.
NR

For my parents, May and Maroun.
JAR

Contents

Acknowledgments

This book arises from research funded by the United Kingdoms Economic and Social Research Council in the form of a three-year 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 European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and the numerous events organized by this network 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, Cornelius Gross, Ilpo Heln, Kenneth Hugdahl, Ilse Kryspin-Exner, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Linsey McGoey, Cordula Nitsch, Joo Arriscado Nunes, Andreas Roepstorff, 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 scientists working in the field of neuroscience for so many productive discussions 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, Personhood in a Neurobiological Age, held in London on September 1314, 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 administrator 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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