Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind

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The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the management of human conduct. Neuro describes the k

Nikolas Rose is professor of sociology and head of the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine at King's College London. His books include "The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton). Joelle M. Abi-Rached is a PhD candidate in the history of science at Harvard University.

"Rose and Abi-Rached make a convincing argument for a more positive engagement between the social and brain sciences in their discussion of the effects of neuroscience on public understanding of the self."--Wayne Hall, Lancet "As the title implies, this book offers interesting thoughts and findings for any scholar with a connection to neuroscience."--Choice