Review/Book/Journal Article

FZJ-2019-02082

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Book review: Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds?

Peters, H. P. (Corresponding author)FZJ*

2018
Sage Thousand Oaks, Calif.

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/23336  doi:10.1177/0963662518772200

Abstract: Neuroscientist Steven Rose and social scientist Hilary Rose have written a critique of the relationship of neuroscience and society and, more specifically, of the links between neuroscience and policy. They tell the story of neuroscientists selling and overselling their science to society, making promises they cannot keep and claims that lack caution and are misused as semi-scientific motivation for neoliberal-inspired initiatives in social policy and educational reform.The introduction presents the concept of technosciences and the authors’ basic assumption of a co-production of neuroscience, society, and the self, that is, of close interdependencies between neuroscience, the social context, and the image we have of ourselves and other human beings. Two main theses are introduced. The first thesis claims a strong connection between the neuroscientific focus on individual brains and cultural individualism and—more specifically—a relation between the neuroscientific framing of problems and the political ideology of neoliberalism. The second thesis states that neuroscience tends to reduce human beings to brains, implying that the well functioning of brains takes precedence over the well-being of people, and that explanations and interventions other than those targeting the brain and brain development disappear from one’s field of vision. ...

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Ethik in den Neurowissenschaften (INM-8)

Research Program(s):

1. 574 - Theory, modelling and simulation (POF3-574) (POF3-574)

Appears in the scientific report 2019

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