Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind PDF
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Neuro Neuro The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi- Rached PRiNcetoN UNiveRsity PRess Princeton and Oxford Copyright © 2013 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu Cover image: Joan Miró (1893–1983), Head of a Catalan Peasant, 1925. Oil on canvas. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Peter Willi / The Bridgeman Art Library. © 2012 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Reproduction, including downloading of Joan Miró works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rose, Nikolas S. Neuro : the new brain sciences and the management of the mind / Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-14960-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-691-14961-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Neuropsychology. I. Abi-Rached, Joelle M., 1979– II. Title. QP360.R655 2013 612.8—dc23 2012023222 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Minion Pro and Ideal Sans Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Diana, as always. NR For my parents, May and Maroun. JAR contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi introduction 1 Beyond Cartesianism? 3 Governing through the Brain 6 Our Argument 9 Human Science? 23 One the Neuromolecular Brain 25 How Should One Do the History of the Neurosciences? 28 Infrastructure 38 A Neuromolecular Style of Thought 41 Enter Plasticity 47 A Neuromolecular and Plastic Brain 51 Two the visible invisible 53 The Clinical Gaze 55 Inscribed on the Body Itself 56 Open Up a Few Brains 61 Seeing the Living Brain 65 The Epidemiology of Visualization 74 The New Engines of Brain Visualization 80 Three What’s Wrong with their Mice? 82 Artificiality? 85 Models1, Models2, Models3, Models4 (and Possibly Models5) 92 The Specificity of the Human 102 Translation 104 Life as Creation 108 Four All in the Brain? 110 To Define True Madness 113 The Burden of Mental Disorder 125 All in the Brain? 130 Neuropsychiatry and the Dilemmas of Diagnosis 137 vii viii Contents Five the social Brain 141 The “Social Brain Hypothesis” 143 Pathologies of the Social Brain 148 Social Neuroscience 151 Social Neuroscience beyond Neuroscience 156 Governing Social Brains 160 Six the Antisocial Brain 164 Embodied Criminals 167 Inside the Living Brain 173 Neurolaw? 177 The Genetics of Control 180 Nipping Budding Psychopaths in the Bud 190 Sculpting the Brain in Those Incredible Years 192 Governing Antisocial Brains 196 Seven Personhood in a Neurobiological Age 199 The Challenged Self 202 From the Pathological to the Normal 204 The Self: From Soul to Brain 213 A Mutation in Ethics and Self- Technologies? 219 Caring for the Neurobiological Self 223 Conclusion Managing Brains, Minds, and selves 225 A Neurobiological Complex 225 Brains In Situ? 227 Coda: The Human Sciences in a Neurobiological Age 232 Appendix How We Wrote this Book 235 Notes 237 References 277 Index 325 Acknowledgments This book arises from research funded by the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council in the form of a three-y ear professorial research fellowship to Nikolas Rose (grant number RES- 051- 27- 0194), and we are happy to acknowledge this support and the opportunities that it provided. We have also benefited greatly from the work with our colleagues in the Eu- ropean Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and the numerous events organized by this net- work that bring researchers from the human sciences together with leading neuroscience researchers in the spirit of critical friendship within which we have written this book: thanks to Trudy Dehue, Giovanni Frazzetto, Corne- lius Gross, Ilpo Helén, Kenneth Hugdahl, Ilse Kryspin- Exner, Klaus- Peter Lesch, Linsey McGoey, Cordula Nitsch, João Arriscado Nunes, Andreas Roep storff, Ilina Singh, and Scott Vrecko. We would also like to acknowledge our lively conversations with Francisco Ortega and Fernando Vidal, and to thank as well the many members of the international network of social sci- entists working in the field of neuroscience for so many productive discus- sions on its social dimensions. The research for this book was carried out within the wonderfully supportive community of the BIOS Research Centre at the London School of Economics, who also helped with organization of the final “Brain, Self, and Society” conference and follow- up workshop, “Person- hood in a Neurobiological Age,” held in London on September 13– 14, 2010: special thanks go to Btihaj Ajana, Valentina Amorese, Rachel Bell, Astrid Christoffersen- Deb, Megan Clinch, Caitlin Connors, Des Fitzgerald, Amy Hinterberger, John MacArtney, Sara Tocchetti, and our excellent administra- tor Victoria Dyas and outstanding manager, Sabrina Fernandez. We also wish to thank our editorial team at Princeton University Press for their support for this book and their careful work on our text. ix
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