PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jan Slaby
TI  - Critical neuroscience meets medical humanities
AID  - 10.1136/medhum-2015-010677
DP  - 2015 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 16--22
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/41/1/16.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/41/1/16.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2015 Jun 01; 41
AB  - This programmatic theory paper sketches a conceptual framework that might inspire work in critical Medical Humanities. For this purpose, Kaushik Sunder Rajan's account of biocapital is revisited and discussed in relation to the perspective of a critical neuroscience. Critical neuroscience is an encompassing positioning towards the recent public prominence of the brain and brain-related practices, tools and discourses. The proposed analytical scheme has five focal nodes: capital, life, technoscience, (neoliberal) politics and subjectivity. A special emphasis will be placed on contemporary framings of subjectivity, as it is here where deep-reaching entanglements of personhood with scientific practice and discourse, medical and informational technologies, and economic formations are most evident. Notably, the emerging subject position of the ‘prospective health consumer’ will be discussed as it figures prominently in the terrain between neuroscience and other medico-scientific disciplines.