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Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (Hardcover)
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Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (Hardcover)
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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.
Leading critic of such neuropretensions, neuroscientist Steven Rose
and sociologist of science Hilary Rose take a sceptical look at
these claims and the science underlying them, sifting out the
sensible from the snake oil. Examining the ways in which science is
shaped by and shapes the political economy of neoliberalism, they
argue that neuroscience on its own is not able to bear the weight
of these hopes.
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