TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1 - Beyond Cartesianism? 3
- Governing through the Brain 6
- Our Argument 9
- Human Science? 23
One The Neuromolecular Brain 25 - How Should One Do the History of the Neurosciences? 28
- Infrastructure 38
- A Neuromolecular Style of Thought 41
- Enter Plasticity 47
- A Neuromolecular and Plastic Brain 51
Two The Visible Invisible 53 - The Clinical Gaze 55
- Inscribed on the Body Itself 56
- Open Up a Few Brains 61
- Seeing the Living Brain 65
- The Epidemiology of Visualization 74
- The New Engines of Brain Visualization 80
Three What's Wrong with Their Mice? 82 - Artificiality? 85
- Models1, Models2, Models3, Models4 (and Possibly Models5) 92
- The Specificity of the Human 102
- Translation 104
- Life as Creation 108
Four All in the Brain? 110 - To Define True Madness 113
- The Burden of Mental Disorder 125
- All in the Brain? 130
- Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis 137
Five The Social Brain 141 - The "Social Brain Hypothesis" 143
- Pathologies of the Social Brain 148
- Social Neuroscience 151
- Social Neuroscience beyond Neuroscience 156
- Governing Social Brains 160
Six The Antisocial Brain 164 - Embodied Criminals 167
- Inside the Living Brain 173
- Neurolaw? 177
- The Genetics of Control 180
- Nipping Budding Psychopaths in the Bud 190
- Sculpting the Brain in Those Incredible Years 192
- Governing Antisocial Brains 196
Seven Personhood in a Neurobiological Age 199 - The Challenged Self 202
- From the Pathological to the Normal 204
- The Self: From Soul to Brain 213
- A Mutation in Ethics and Self-Technologies? 219
- Caring for the Neurobiological Self 223
Conclusion Managing Brains, Minds, and Selves 225 - A Neurobiological Complex 225
- Brains In Situ? 227
- Coda: The Human Sciences in a Neurobiological Age 232
Appendix How We Wrote This Book 235
Notes 237
References 277
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