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Begley, Sharon. "Why The Young Kill." Newsweek (3 May 1999): 32-35.

"Biology and Homosexuality." Letters by Thomas A. Schoenfeld, Joseph M. Carrier, George Gellert, and Simon LeVay. Science 254, no. 5032 (1 November 1991): 630.

Canguilhem, Georges. The Normal and the Pathological. New York: Zone Books, 1989.

Carrithers, Michael, Steven Collins, and Steven Lukes, eds. The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Cohen, Lawrence. No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Danziger, Kurt. Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Derrida, Jacques. Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Diller, Lawerance. Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.

Donald, Alistair. "The Wal-Marting of American Psychiatry: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Practice in the Late 20th Century." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 25, no. 4 (December 2001): 427-439.

Downey, Gary Lee, Joseph Dumit, and Sharon Traweek. "Corridor Talk." In Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Science, Technology & Medicine. Edited by Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit. Sante Fe: School of American Research, 1995, pp. 245-263.

Dumit, Joseph. "When explanations rest: 'Good-enough' Brain Science and the New Sociomedical Disorders." In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Edited by M. Lock, A. Young, and A. Cambrosio. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 209-232.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 2000.

Floyd-Davis, Robbie, and Joseph Dumit, eds. Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. New York: Routledge, 1998.

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Foucault, Michael. Power. Edited by James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 2000.

Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002.

Gazzaniga, Michael S., ed. Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997, chap. 3, 5, and 6.

Gergen, Kenneth. "Metaphor, Metatheory, and the Social World." In Metaphors in the History of Psychology. Edited by D. E. Leary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 267-299.

Gerson, Elihu M. and Susan Leigh Star. "Analyzing Due Process in the Workplace." ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 4, 3 (July 1986):257-270.

Hacking, Ian. "Making Up People." In Reconstructing Individualism. Edited by Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellby. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1986, pp. 161-171.

Healy, David. The Creation of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 334-390.

Hirstein, W., and V.S. Ramachandran. "Capgras syndrome: a novel probe for understanding the neural representation and familiarity of persons." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 264 (1997): 437-444.

Kagan, Jerome. "Born To Be Shy." Chap. 2 in States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are. Edited by Roberta Conlan. New York: John Wiley, 1999.

Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Kopytoff, Igor. "The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process." In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective . Edited by Arjun Appadurai. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 64-91.

Kramer, Peter. Listening to Prozac. New York: Viking, 1993.

Kuriyama, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. New York/London: Zone, 2002.

Kutchins, Herb, and Stuart A. Kirk. Making Us Crazy: DSM: the Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders . New York: Free Press, 1997

LeDoux, Joseph. "Power of Emotions." Chap. 6 in States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are. Edited by Roberta Conlan. New York: John Wiley, 1999.

LeVay, Simon. "A Difference in Hypothalamic Structure between Heterosexual and Homosexual Men." Science 253, no. 5023 (30 August 1991): 1034-1037.

LeVay, Simon. Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.

Marshall, Eliot. "When Does Intellectual Passion Become Conflict of Interest?"
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Martin, Emily. "Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger." In Women, Science, and Technology. Edited by Mary Wyer. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 285-301.

Mauss, Marcel. "A Category of the Human Mind: the Notion of Person; the Notion of Self." In Category of the Person. Edited by Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, and Steven Lukes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 1-25.

McCulloch, W.S., et al. "Two Remarks on the Visual System of the Frog." In Sensory Communication. Edited by Walter Rosenblith. New York: John Wiley, 1961, pp. 757-776.

McCulloch, W.S., et al. "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain." In W.S. McCulloch, Embodiments of Mind. Cambirdge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965, pp. 230-255.

McEwen, Bruce. "Stress and the Brain." Chap. 4 in States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are. Edited by Roberta Conlan. New York: John Wiley, 1999.

Melucci, Alberto. Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Miami Theory Collective, eds. Community at Loose Ends. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Morley, David, and Kuan-Hsing Chen. "On Postmodernism and Articulation: Interview with Stuart Hall." Chap. 6 in Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. Edited by David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen. London: Routledge, 1996.

Morris, Aldon, and Carol McClurg Mueller. Frontiers in Social Movement Theory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

Nelkin, Dorothy, and Laurence Tancredi. Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Posner, Michael I., and Marcus E. Raichle. Images of mind. New York : Scientific American Library, 1994.

Pribram, Karl. "From Metaphors to Models." In Metaphors in the History of Psychology. Edited by D. E. Leary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 79-103.

Ramachandran, V. S., and Sandra Blakeslee. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: William Morrow, 1998.

Roediger, H. L. "Memory Metaphors in Cognitive Psychology." In The Psychology of Memory. Edited by P.E. Morris and M.A. Conway. Vol. III. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

Serres, Michel, with Bruno Latour. Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Shallice, Tim. From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Star, Susan Leigh. Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Taylor, Charles. "The Person." In Category of the Person. Edited by Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, and Steven Lukes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 257-281.

Turner, Victor. "Body, Brain, and Culture." In The Anthropology of Performance. New York: PAJ Publications, 1986, chap. 8.

Vines, Gail. Raging hormones: Do They Rule Our Lives? Berkeley: University of California, 1994.

Weinberg, Bennett Alan. The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 181-233.

Wilson, Elizabeth A. Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition. New York: Routledge, 1998.



 



 








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