Steven Rose

Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind

The 21st-Century Brain

From Brains to Consciousness? Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind

Richard C. Lewontin

Leon J. Kamin

Biyoloji, psikoloji ve toplum bilimlerinin kesişim noktasında çığır açan bir yapıt. İlk baskısını 1984 yılında yapan ve büyük tartışmalar yaratarak alanında bir klasik haline gelen Genlerimizden İbaret Değiliz, uzun yıllar boyunca tartışılmazlık mertebesine erişmiş olan bir bilim dalını, biyolojiyi konu ediniyor ve biyolojik determinizmin bilimsel, toplumsal, politik kökenlerini analiz ediyor. “Sınıf, ırk veya toplumsal cinsiyet temelli eşitsizlikler, genetik kalıtımın sonuçlarıdır” savını ortaya atan biyolojik determinizm, hemen ardından kötü haberi verir: Bu konuda yapacak bir şey yok! Öyle ya, biyolojiyi değiştiremiyorsan biyoloji kaynaklı şeyleri de değiştiremezsin. Gerçekten öyle mi peki? İşte yazarlar bu sorunun cevabını arıyor. Evrimsel biyolog ve genetikçi Richard C. Lewontin, biyoloji ve nörobiyoloji profesörü Steven Rose ve psikolog Leon J. Kamin’in bu klasikleşmiş eseri, biyoloji ile ideoloji arasındaki ilişkiye daha önce bakmadığınız bir pencereden bakmanızı istiyor. “Bilim, burjuva toplumunun nihai meşruiyet sağlayıcısıdır. Biyolojik determinizm sınıflar arasındaki mücadelede kullanılacak silah ise, o zaman üniversiteler silah fabrikasıdır.” Yayımlandığı günden itibaren tartışmalar yaratmış, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Edward Osborne Wilson gibi yazarların hakkında eleştiri ve değerlendirmeler kaleme aldığı Genlerimizden İbaret Değiliz şimdi Türkçede!

Biyoloji, İdeoloji Ve İnsan Doğası

Genlerimizden İbaret Değiliz

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain--including consciousness--and to what extent cutting edge technologies should have the power to mend or manipulate the mind. Rose first offers a panoramic look at what we now know about the brain, from its three-billion-year evolution, to its astonishingly rapid development in the embryo, to the miraculous process of infant development. More important, he shows what all this science can--and cannot--tell us about the human condition. He examines questions that still baffle scientists and he explores the potential threats and promises of new technologies and their ethical, legal, and social implications, wondering how far we should go in eliminating unwanted behavior or enhancing desired characteristics, focusing on the new "brain steroids" and on the use of Ritalin to control young children. The Future of the Brain is a remarkable look at what the brain sciences are telling us about who we are and where we came from--and where we may be headed in years to come.

The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience

The Future of the Brain

Richard Charles Lewontin

Biology, Ideology and Human Nature

Not in Our Genes

James Newman

Loren Rhoads

Jeff Carlson

Sandra Harris

Chantal Boudreau

H. E. Roulo

Mary Abshire

Emerian Rich

Catt Dahman

Dean Farnell

Willo Hausman

Laurel Hill

Sapphire Neal

Chris Ringler

Kristin Battestella

Mimielle LaFauve

Dan Shaurette

Garth Buchholz

Sparky Anderson

Do you love the horror genre? Do you look at horror as a lifestyle? Do the "norms" not understand your love of the macabre? Despair no longer, my friend, for within your grasp is a book written by those who look at horror as a way of life, just like you. This is your guide to living a horrifying existence. Featuring interviews with Midnight Syndicate, Valentine Wolfe, and The Gothic Tea Society. Authors: Kristin Battestella, Mimielle, Emerian Rich, Dan Shaurette, Steven Rose Jr., Garth von Buchholz, H.E. Roulo, Sparky Lee Anderson, Mary Abshire, Chantal Boudreau, Jeff Carlson, Catt Dahman, Dean Farnell, Sandra Harris, Willo Hausman, Laurel Anne Hill, Sapphire Neal, James Newman, Loren Rhoads, Chris Ringler, Jessica Robinson, Eden Royce, Sumiko Saulson, Patricia Santos Marcantonio, J. Malcolm Stewart, Stoneslide Corrective, Mimi A.Williams, and Ron Vitale. With art by Carmen Masloski and Lnoir.

Horror Addicts Guide to Life

Hilary Rose

Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project, the biosciences have promised miracle cures and radical new ways of understanding who we are. But where is the new world we were promised? In Genes, Cells, and Brains, feminist sociologist Hilary Rose and neuroscientist Steven Rose take on the bioscience industry and its claims. Examining the rivalries between public and private sequencers,the establishment of biobanks, and the rise of stem cell research, they ask why the promised cornucopia of health benefits has failed to emerge. Has bioethics simply become an enterprise? As bodies become increasingly commodified, perhaps the failure to deliver on these promises lies in genomics itself.

The Promethean Promises of the New Biology

Genes, Cells and Brains

Neuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation. With its promise to cure physical and social ills, government sees neuroscience as a tool to increase the 'mental capital' of the children of the deprived and workless. It sets aside intensifying poverty and inequality, instead claiming that basing children's rearing and education on brain science will transform both the child's and the nation's health and wealth. Leading critic of such neuropretensions, neuroscientist Steven Rose and sociologist of science Hilary Rose take a sceptical look at these claims and the science underlying them, sifting out the sensible from the snake oil. Examining the ways in which science is shaped by and shapes the political economy of neoliberalism, they argue that neuroscience on its own is not able to bear the weight of these hopes.

Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds?

Dai Rees

The social, ethical and legal implications of discoveries in the neurosciences.

Perils and Prospects

The New Brain Sciences

A distinct voice in the nature/nurture debate, Rose's series of essays are a response to the biological reductionism of Richard Dawkins's book, The Selfish Gene (OUP, 1990), which insists that all aspects of human life are in our genes, and everything arises as a consequence of natural selection. Rose argues that life depends on the elaborate web of interactions that occur within cells, organisms, and ecosystems, and in which DNA has but one part to play.

Life beyond the Gene

Lifelines

Steven Rose's The Making of Memory is about just that, in both its senses: the biological processes by which we humans - and other animals - learn and remember, and how researchers can explore these mechanisms. But it is also about much more. When the first edition of this fascinating book won the Science book Prize in 1993, the judges described it as 'a riveting read...a first-hand account by a practicing scientist working at the forefront of medical research and Rose does not duck the issues which that raises.' Now ten years on, research has itself moved forward, and Rose has taken the opportunity to fully revise the book. But this is more than mere revision. Where ten years ago he argued the case for research on memory because it is the most extraordinary of human attributes, Rose's own research has now opened the doors to a potential new treatment for Alzheimer's Disease undreamed of a decade ago, and in an entirely new chapter he describes how this potential breakthrough has occurred.

From Molecules to Mind

The Making Of Memory

Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that 'it's all in our genes' has become the most popular scientific theory of the late 20th century. Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Edward O.Wilson's Consilience and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct have become bestsellers and frame the public debate on human life and development: we can see their influence as soon as we open a Sunday newspaper. In recent years, however, many biologists and social scientists have begun to contest this new biological determinism and shown that Evolutionary Psychology rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political presuppositions. In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Hilary and Steven Rose have gathered together the most eminent and outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology, ranging from Stephen Jay Gould and Patrick Bateson to Mary Midgley, Tim Ingold and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. What emerges is a new perspective on human development which acknowledges the complexity of life by placing at its centre the living organism rather than the gene.

Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology

Alas Poor Darwin

Steven Rose

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