STS.066 Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters, Fall 2002

STS.066 Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters, Fall 2002

Subject examines the brain as a cultural object in contemporary media, science, and society. Explores cultural assumptions about neuroscience by drawing on anthropology, history, semiotics, and the cognitive sciences. Topics include historical views of the brain; digital images of the brain; psychop...

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Main Author: Dumit, Joseph
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2002
Subjects:
brain
cultural object
contemporary media
science
society
cultural assumptions
neuroscience
anthropology
history
semiotics
cognitive sciences
historical views
digital images
psychopharmacology
mental illness
neurotransmitters
brain science
Science > Social aspects
Brain
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55811

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