STS.066 Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters, Fall 2002

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Author(s)
Dumit, Joseph
Alternative Title
Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters
Date Issued
December 2002
Abstract
Subject examines the brain as a cultural object in contemporary media, science, and society. Explores cultural assumptions about neuroscience by drawing on anthropology, history, semiotics, and the cognitive sciences. Topics include historical views of the brain; digital images of the brain; psychopharmacology; mental illness; neurotransmitters; and the culture of brain science. Class assignments include three brief analytical papers and one oral presentation.
Subjects
brain
cultural object
contemporary media
science
society
cultural assumptions
neuroscience
anthropology
history
semiotics
cognitive sciences
historical views
digital images
psychopharmacology
mental illness
neurotransmitters
brain science
Science -- Social aspects
Brain
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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