critical neuroscience

"Critical Neuroscience" and the discomfort of being studied

ddobbs | February 27, 2009

I drove up to Montreal yesterday, and amid visits with anthropologist and Somatosphere founder Eugene Raikhel, anthropologist Allan Young, and Suparna Choudhury, talked about (among other things) the emerging new area of study they're calling "critical neuroscience." What the heck is critical neuroscience? Well, one definition calls it the attempt to assess and inform neuroscientific practice from a rich interdisciplinary perspective, and to categorize, evaluate and (begin to) manage the various risks resulting from neuroscience and its results and applications . Daniel Lende, one of the…