Chapter 13 The value of the imagined biological in policy and society : Somaticizing and economizing British subject(ivitie)s

Attending the World Economic Forum this past week, I was struck by two trends. The first was that brain research has emerged as a hot topic. Not only was brain science or brain health a new theme at the meeting, research on the brain emerged in discussions about next generation computing, global coo...

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Main Author: Pickersgill, Martyn (auth)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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