Plastic Reason

An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms

AvTobias Rees

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien University of California Press

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Beskrivning

Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central nervous system by showing that basic embryogenetic processes - most spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in the form of new neurons, axons, dendrites, and synapses - continue in the mature brain. Furthermore, these researchers sought to demonstrate that the new tissues are still unspecific and hence literally plastic, and that this cellular plasticity is constitutive of the possibility of the human. Plastic Reason, grounded in years of fieldwork and historical research, is an anthropologist's account of what has arguably been one of the most sweeping events in the history of brain research-the highly contested effort to consider the adult brain in embryogenetic terms. A careful analysis of the disproving of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520288133

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Tobias Rees is Associate Professor of Anthropology with a dual appointment in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.

Recensioner i media

"One of the most engaging and quirky anthropological monographs I have read in recent years."

Innehållsförteckning

Illustrations The Ground of the Argument Note on Technical Terms Acknowledgments On Growth and Form 1. ENTRY Observation 2. RELATIONAL Regional Rationalities 3. CONCEPTUAL Histories of Truth 4. NOCTURNAL Vital Concepts5. EXPERIMENTAL Plastic Anatomies of the Living 6. ETHICAL Humility 7. LETTING GO The Plastic Coda: Plasticity after 2003 Notes Bibliography Index

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Plastic Reason

An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms

AvTobias Rees

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien University of California Press

433 kr

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Fler format och utgåvor

Inbunden

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E-bok

503 kr

Beskrivning

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520288133

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Tobias Rees is Associate Professor of Anthropology with a dual appointment in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.

Recensioner i media

"One of the most engaging and quirky anthropological monographs I have read in recent years."

Innehållsförteckning

Illustrations The Ground of the Argument Note on Technical Terms Acknowledgments On Growth and Form 1. ENTRY Observation 2. RELATIONAL Regional Rationalities 3. CONCEPTUAL Histories of Truth 4. NOCTURNAL Vital Concepts5. EXPERIMENTAL Plastic Anatomies of the Living 6. ETHICAL Humility 7. LETTING GO The Plastic Coda: Plasticity after 2003 Notes Bibliography Index