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NEUROSCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE - Coggle Diagram
NEUROSCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
1) INTRODUCTION
2) MEDIA COVERAGE OF NEUROSCIENCE
Increasing in these years, in particular articles about brain optimization
Neuroscience evidence have an important
social impact
(and rethorical power) but they are
not translated intact
in the media (but culturally deformed)
A
little research
studied this:
Enlighted the phenomenon of:
Neurorealism
Neuroessentialism
Neuropolicy
Not naming of
neuroimaging technique
used in the media articles
Excessive focus on that field
3) COMMON EMERGING THEMES
THE BRAIN AS CAPITAL
How to optimize it?
Strategies to
optimize brain
(food, physical exercise)
Efficacy not pervenuted
Strategies to
avoid risks
for the brain
Moral implications
Promoting regime of
self discipline
Cardinal value
of
western society
(how neuroscience findings are culturally interpretated
Discussion of
parenting
THE BRAIN AS AN INDEX OF DIFFERENCE
Create boundaries
Underline differences associated with
stereotypes
Essentialize
some categories (who became homogeneous)
Neuroscience as
classificatory system
used to
stigmatized
Create a
rigid distinction
with the normality (especially when a category is morally unaccepted)
Blur boundaries
Using
psychopatology terminology
in the real-life situation
Neuroscience used to
explain
the
ordinary
THE BRAIN AS BIOLOGICAL PROOF
Validate
some phenomena and report them to the physical world
Infer causal relationship
with social-pratical matters
Overextension of research
in the implication outside (while neuroscientific researches have translational limitations)
Used to support particular political agendas (
neuropolicy
)
4) WHAT SHOULD NEUROSCIENTISTS DO?
Be sensitive to the social consequences of neuroscientific information
Including social implications in their studies (debating with educators)