The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain

by Jenell Johnson and Melissa M. Littlefield

The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of the hottest topics of study---not only for scientists but also, increasingly, for scholars from the humanities and social sciences. While the popular press...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472118269
• ISBN13: 9780472118267
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"