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" So Human a Brain : "
edited by Anne Harrington.
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BL
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721088
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b540792
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edited by Anne Harrington.
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So Human a Brain : : Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences\ edited by Anne Harrington.
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Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint : Birkhäuser, 1992
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(xxiii, 355 pages)
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1461203910
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: 9781461203919
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1. Knowledge of and by the Human Brain: Limits and Possibilities --;1. Neuroethological Perspectives on the Human Brain: From the Expression of Emotions to Intentional Signing and Speech --;2. Truth in Dreaming --;3. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Human Self --;4. Obtaining Knowledge of the Subjective Brain ('Epistemics') --;5. Morality and the Limits of Knowledge: A Neuropsychological Meditation --;2. Values and the Nature of the Neuroscientific Knowledge Game --;6. What Is the Ethical Context of the Neurosciences? --;7. The Gendered Brain: Some Historical Perspectives --;8. Walker Percy: Language, Neuropsychology, and Moral Tradition --;9. Walker Percy: Neuroscience and the Common Understanding --;3. Neuroscientific Knowledge and Social Accountability --;10. Reconstructing the Brain: Justifications and Dilemmas in Fetal Neural Transplant Research --;11. Therapeutic Exuberance: A Double-Edged Sword --;12. Brain Research, Animal Awareness, and Human Sensibility: Scientific and Social Dislocations --;4. Sociohistorical Perspectives on Values and Knowledge in the Brain Sciences --;13. Securing a Brain: The Contested Meanings of Kuru --;14. The Skin, the Skull, and the Self: Toward a Sociology of the Brain --;15. Other 'Ways of Knowing': The Politics of Knowledge in Interwar German Brain Science --;5. Knowledge and Values across Disciplines: Reconstruction and Analysis of an Interdisciplinary Dialogue --;16. At the Intersection of Knowledge and Values: Fragments of a Dialogue in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 1990 --;17. 'So Human a Brain': Ethnographic Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Conference.
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ROSENBLITH Footnotes to the Recent History of Neuroscience: Personal Reflections and Microstories The workshop upon which this volume is based offered me an opportunity to renew contact fairly painlessly with workers in the brain sciences, not just as a participant/observer but maybe as what might be called a teller of microstories.
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Behavior -- physiology.
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Brain -- physiology.
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Science (General)
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QP356.E358 1992
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Anne Harrington
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