Brain culture : neuroscience and popular media /
Thornton, Davi Johnson, 1978-
Brain culture : neuroscience and popular media / Davi Johnson Thornton. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - vii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.
The rhetorical brain -- Visualizing the new brain -- "How do you know unless you look?" : practical neuroscience and brain-based self-help -- Babies, blank slates, and brain building -- Pills, power, and the neuroscience of everyday life -- Mental health care, the rhetoric of recovery, and entrepreneurial lives -- The brain is the frontier : the subjectifications of neuroscience.
9780813550121 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813550122 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813550138 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813550130 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010035284
101565012 DNLM
Neurosciences.
Science in popular culture.
Science in mass media.
RC343 / .T563 2011
616.8
2011 H-334 WL 100
Brain culture : neuroscience and popular media / Davi Johnson Thornton. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - vii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.
The rhetorical brain -- Visualizing the new brain -- "How do you know unless you look?" : practical neuroscience and brain-based self-help -- Babies, blank slates, and brain building -- Pills, power, and the neuroscience of everyday life -- Mental health care, the rhetoric of recovery, and entrepreneurial lives -- The brain is the frontier : the subjectifications of neuroscience.
9780813550121 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813550122 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813550138 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813550130 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010035284
101565012 DNLM
Neurosciences.
Science in popular culture.
Science in mass media.
RC343 / .T563 2011
616.8
2011 H-334 WL 100