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050	0	0	_aQP363.5 _b.R44 2016
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100	1		_aRees, Tobias, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPlastic reason _h[electronic resource] : _ban anthropology of brain science in embryogenetic terms / _cTobias Rees.
260			_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2016 _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
260			_aOakland, California : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2016] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiii, 323 pages) :) _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index.
505	0		_aEntry -- Observation -- Relational -- Regional rationalities -- Conceptual : Histories of truth (plasticity ca. 1890, 1970, and 1990) -- Nocturnal -- Vital concepts -- Experimental -- Plastic anatomies of the living -- Ethical -- Humility -- Letting go -- Adventures -- Coda : plasticity after 2003.
520			_aThroughout 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aNeuroplasticity.
650		0	_aBrain _xResearch _xHistory.
650		0	_aDevelopmental neurobiology.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _w(DLC) 2015032358 _z9780520288126
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/45743/
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Archaeology and Anthropology
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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