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Schregel, Susanne and Broer, Tineke (2020). Introduction: Contested narratives of the mind and the brain: Neuro/psychological knowledge in popular debates and everyday life. Hist. Hum. Sci., 33 (5). S. 3 - 12. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1461-720X

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Abstract

This special section evolved out of a workshop entitled 'Minds and Brains in Everyday Life: Embedding and Negotiating Scientific Concepts in Popular Discourses', held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Our discussions at the workshop and for this special section began with the observation that scientific interpretations and everyday explanations regularly meet and come together in debates about aspects of the mind and the brain. Such entanglements between science and the wider public have already been studied from multiple perspectives in history and the social sciences. Recently, however, warnings have intensified that researchers also need to take into account the limitations that certain scientific claims may encounter in everyday life, and to remain methodologically open to alternative explanations that are not derived from forms of (neuro)psychological knowledge. We suggest that focusing on contested narratives of the mind and the brain may be one approach to studying the interaction between science and the larger public, as well as investigating the ignorance, limits, counterforces, and outright rejection that scientific concepts may encounter in everyday life.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schregel, Susanne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Broer, Tineke UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-309794
DOI:	10.1177/0952695120972915
Journal or Publication Title:	Hist. Hum. Sci.
Volume:	33
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 3 - 12
Date:	2020
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1461-720X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language History & Philosophy Of Science; History Of Social Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/30979