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The Brain's Body
Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
Taschenbuch von Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Sprache: Englisch

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In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is impacted by social structures, especially in regard to race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability, as well as how those social structures shape neuroscientific knowledge. Pointing out that some brain scientists have not fully abandoned reductionist or determinist explanations of neurobiology, Pitts-Taylor moves beyond debates over nature and nurture to address the politics of plastic, biosocial brains. She highlights the potential of research into poverty's effects on the brain to reinforce certain notions of poor subjects and to justify particular forms of governance, while her queer critique of kinship research demonstrates the limitations of hypotheses based on heteronormative assumptions. In her exploration of the embodied mind and the "embrained" body, Pitts-Taylor highlights the inextricability of nature and culture and shows why using feminist and queer thought is essential to understanding the biosociality of the brain.
In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is impacted by social structures, especially in regard to race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability, as well as how those social structures shape neuroscientific knowledge. Pointing out that some brain scientists have not fully abandoned reductionist or determinist explanations of neurobiology, Pitts-Taylor moves beyond debates over nature and nurture to address the politics of plastic, biosocial brains. She highlights the potential of research into poverty's effects on the brain to reinforce certain notions of poor subjects and to justify particular forms of governance, while her queer critique of kinship research demonstrates the limitations of hypotheses based on heteronormative assumptions. In her exploration of the embodied mind and the "embrained" body, Pitts-Taylor highlights the inextricability of nature and culture and shows why using feminist and queer thought is essential to understanding the biosociality of the brain.
Über den Autor
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Social Brain and Corporeal Politics 1

1. The Phenomenon of Brain Plasticity 17

2. What Difference Does the Body Make? 43

3. I Feel Your Pain 67

4. Neurobiology and the Queerness of Kinship 95

Conclusion: The Multiplicity of Embodiment 119

Notes 129

References 153

Index 177
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Biophysik
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822361268
ISBN-10: 0822361264
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pitts-Taylor, Victoria
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.03.2016
Gewicht: 0,287 kg
Artikel-ID: 104526344
Über den Autor
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Social Brain and Corporeal Politics 1

1. The Phenomenon of Brain Plasticity 17

2. What Difference Does the Body Make? 43

3. I Feel Your Pain 67

4. Neurobiology and the Queerness of Kinship 95

Conclusion: The Multiplicity of Embodiment 119

Notes 129

References 153

Index 177
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Biophysik
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822361268
ISBN-10: 0822361264
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pitts-Taylor, Victoria
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.03.2016
Gewicht: 0,287 kg
Artikel-ID: 104526344
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