Plasticity and pathology : on the formation of the neural subject / edited by David Bates and Nima Bassiri.
- Plasticity and Pathology : History and Theory of Neural Subjects (Workshop) (2014 : Berkeley, Calif.)
- Date:
- [2016]
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : Townsend center for the Humanities University of Carlifornia ; New York : Fordham University Press, [2016]
Physical description
xiii, 351 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Notes
The essays collected here were presented at the workshop Plasticity and Pathology: History and Theory of Neural Subjects at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contents
Toward an ethnography of experimental psychology / Emily Martin -- "You are (not) your synapses" : toward a critical approach to neuroscience / Catherine Malabou -- Plasticity, pathology, and pleasure in cold war America / Cathy Gere -- Epileptic insanity and personal identity : John Hughlings Jackson and the Formations of the neuropathic self / Nima Bassiri -- Integrations, vigilance, catastrophe : the neuropsychiatry of aphasia in Henry Head and Kurt Goldstein / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers -- The history of a brain wound : Alexander Luria and the dialectics of Soviet plasticity / Hannah Proctor and Laura Salisbury -- Automaticity, plasticity, and the deviant origins of artificial intelligence / David Bates -- Plastic diagrams : circuits in the brain and how they got there / Joseph Dumit -- Imperfect reflections : norms, pathology, and difference in mirror neuron research / Katja Guenther -- On how adult cerebral plasticity research has decoupled pathology from death / Tobias Rees.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status History of MedicinePI /BATOpen shelves
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- 9780823266135
- 0823266133
- 9780823266142
- 0823266141