Brain culture
Subtitle: neuroscience and popular media
By: Davi Johnson Thornton
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780813550121; 9780813550138
Subjects: Neurosciences; Science in popular culture; Science in mass media; Neuropsychology; Mass Media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rhetorical brain; title: Visualizing the new brain; title: "How do you know unless you look?" : practical neuroscience and brain-based self-help; title: Babies, blank slates, and brain building; title: Pills, power, and the neuroscience of everyday life; title: Mental health care, the rhetoric of recovery, and entrepreneurial lives; title: The brain is the frontier : the subjectifications of neuroscience.