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Epilogue: The Redux of Postmodernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2015

Roderick D. Buchanan
Roderick D. Buchanan*
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University of Melbourne E-mail: r.d.buchanan@optusnet.com.au
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The essays in this topical issue illustrate the changing cultural form and function of the biopsyche disciplines – disciplines that are both sciences and technologies of selfhood. To varying degrees, each essay actively engages Paul Forman's thesis on modern and postmodern cultural valuations of science and technology. Forman invites those who read his work to view the cultural space framing science and technology in new ways (Forman 2007; idem 2010).

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Science in Context , Volume 28 , Issue 1: Of Means and Ends: Mind and Brain Science in the Twentieth Century , March 2015 , pp. 163 - 170
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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