Books written by Jenell Johnson
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The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
For instance, John Bovee Dods, a former Universalist minister and self-proclaimed “electrical psychologist,” lectured on the wonders of mesmerism and animal electricity to the U.S. Senate in 1850. In this series oflectures, solicited by ...
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The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
... 100, 222, 229 Poyen, Charles, 33 pragmatism, 12, 141–48 prayer, 107, 111–14, 190–92 prefrontal cortex, 8, 112, 116, 124– 26, 128– 29, 170 Princeton Neuroscience Institute, 20n6 prospect theory. See Kahneman, Daniel Proust, Marcel, ...
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Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power
Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 144. Ibid., 7. Wendy Brown, “Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy,” Theory and Event 7, no.
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Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power
"Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power is a critical study of the relationship between the concept of citizenship and the body"--
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Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power
In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and practices of citizenship, ...
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Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common
This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters.
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Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common
... Inessential Solidarity , 23 . 28. Biesecker , Addressing Postmodernity , 46 . 29. Davis , Inessential Solidarity , 22. For more on the way that the living body structures Burke's thought , see Hawhee , Moving Bodies , and especially ...
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American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
The book provocatively challenges the history of medicine, arguing that rhetorical history is crucial to understanding medical history.