The Resource Plastic reason : an anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms, Tobias Rees
Plastic reason : an anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms, Tobias Rees
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- Summary
- "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 undermine this rigid conception of the central nervous system and to show that basic embryogenetic processes--most spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in 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 breaking open of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing where before there were none."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxiii, 323 pages
- Contents
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- Entry : Observation
- Relational : Regional rationalities
- Conceptual : Histories of truth
- Nocturnal : Vital concepts
- Experimental : Plastic anatomies of the living
- Ethical : Humility
- Letting go : The plastic
- Coda: plasticity after 2003
- Isbn
- 9780520288126
- Label
- Plastic reason : an anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms
- Title
- Plastic reason
- Title remainder
- an anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms
- Statement of responsibility
- Tobias Rees
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 undermine this rigid conception of the central nervous system and to show that basic embryogenetic processes--most spectacularly the emergence of new cellular tissue in 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 breaking open of an established truth, it reveals the turmoil that such a disruption brings about and the emergence of new possibilities of thinking and knowing where before there were none."--Provided by publisher
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rees, Tobias
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QP363.5
- LC item number
- .R44 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Roy and Marian Holleman Foundation
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Developmental neurobiology
- Brain
- Neuroplasticity
- Brain
- Developmental neurobiology
- Neuroplasticity
- Label
- Plastic reason : an anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms, Tobias Rees
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index
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- Contents
- Entry : Observation -- Relational : Regional rationalities -- Conceptual : Histories of truth -- Nocturnal : Vital concepts -- Experimental : Plastic anatomies of the living -- Ethical : Humility -- Letting go : The plastic -- Coda: plasticity after 2003
- Control code
- 920469736
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxiii, 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520288126
- Lccn
- 2015032358
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- Copley Library's copy funded by a grant from the Roy & Marian Holleman Foundation
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)920469736
- Label
- Plastic reason : an anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms, Tobias Rees
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- txt
- sti
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- rdacontent
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- Contents
- Entry : Observation -- Relational : Regional rationalities -- Conceptual : Histories of truth -- Nocturnal : Vital concepts -- Experimental : Plastic anatomies of the living -- Ethical : Humility -- Letting go : The plastic -- Coda: plasticity after 2003
- Control code
- 920469736
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxiii, 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520288126
- Lccn
- 2015032358
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Copley Library's copy funded by a grant from the Roy & Marian Holleman Foundation
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)920469736
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