Ebook: So Human a Brain: Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences

1. Knowledge of and by the Human Brain: Limits and Possibilities.- 1. Neuroethological Perspectives on the Human Brain: From the Expression of Emotions to Intentional Signing and Speech.- 2. Truth in Dreaming.- 3. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Human Self.- 4. Obtaining Knowledge of the Subjective Brain (“Epistemics”).- 5. Morality and the Limits of Knowledge: A Neuropsychological Meditation.- 2. Values and the Nature of the Neuroscientific Knowledge Game.- 6. What Is the Ethical Context of the Neurosciences?.- 7. The Gendered Brain: Some Historical Perspectives.- 8. Walker Percy: Language, Neuropsychology, and Moral Tradition.- 9. Walker Percy: Neuroscience and the Common Understanding.- 3. Neuroscientific Knowledge and Social Accountability.- 10. Reconstructing the Brain: Justifications and Dilemmas in Fetal Neural Transplant Research.- 11. Therapeutic Exuberance: A Double-Edged Sword.- 12. Brain Research, Animal Awareness, and Human Sensibility: Scientific and Social Dislocations.- 4. Sociohistorical Perspectives on Values and Knowledge in the Brain Sciences.- 13. Securing a Brain: The Contested Meanings of Kuru.- 14. The Skin, the Skull, and the Self: Toward a Sociology of the Brain.- 15. Other “Ways of Knowing”: The Politics of Knowledge in Interwar German Brain Science.- 5. Knowledge and Values across Disciplines: Reconstruction and Analysis of an Interdisciplinary Dialogue.- 16. At the Intersection of Knowledge and Values: Fragments of a Dialogue in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 1990.- 17. “So Human a Brain”: Ethnographic Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Conference.