Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential.
Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central nervous system by showing that basic embryogenetic processes—most spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in the form of new neurons, axons, dendrites, and synapses—continue in the mature brain. Furthermore, these researchers sought to demonstrate that the new tissues are still unspecific and hence literally plastic, and that this cellular plasticity is constitutive of the possibility of the human.
Plastic Reason, grounded in years of fieldwork and historical research, is an anthropologist’s account of what has arguably been one of the most sweeping events in the history of brain research—the highly contested effort to consider the adult brain in embryogenetic terms. A careful analysis of the disproving of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing.
Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central nervous system by showing that basic embryogenetic processes—most spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in the form of new neurons, axons, dendrites, and synapses—continue in the mature brain. Furthermore, these researchers sought to demonstrate that the new tissues are still unspecific and hence literally plastic, and that this cellular plasticity is constitutive of the possibility of the human.
Plastic Reason, grounded in years of fieldwork and historical research, is an anthropologist’s account of what has arguably been one of the most sweeping events in the history of brain research—the highly contested effort to consider the adult brain in embryogenetic terms. A careful analysis of the disproving of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing.
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Illustrations The Ground of the ArgumentNote on Technical Terms
Acknowledgments
On Growth and Form
1. ENTRY
Observation
2. RELATIONAL
Regional Rationalities
3. CONCEPTUAL
Histories of Truth
4. NOCTURNAL
Vital Concepts
5. EXPERIMENTAL
Plastic Anatomies of the Living
6. ETHICAL
Humility
7. LETTING GO
The Plastic
Coda: Plasticity after 2003
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Om författaren
Tobias Rees is Associate Professor of Anthropology with a dual appointment in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at Mc Gill University.Köp den här e-boken och få 1 till GRATIS!
Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 352 ● ISBN 9780520963177 ● Filstorlek 4.4 MB ● Utgivare University of California Press ● Publicerad 2016 ● Utgåva 1 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5512166 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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