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Brain culture : neuroscience and popular media / Davi Johnson Thornton.

Author: Thornton, Davi Johnson, 1978-

Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

Descriptionvii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.



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Thornton, Davi Johnson, 1978-
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Neurosciences.
Science in popular culture.
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