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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
- ISSN
- 2517-7982
- eISSN
- 2517-7990
- DOI
- 10.3366/cfs.2020.0008
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This paper seeks to understand how crime fiction connects with the neuroscientific turn occurring in society and culture today. It argues the genre has inherent ties to the science, technology, and biopolitical imperatives underpinning the neuroscientific turn, and is thus uniquely suited to exploring and challenging the ethical considerations arising from it. The paper highlights the symbiotic relationship between crime fiction and neuroscientific models, in which the particularities of the genre are employed by science while science influences the forms of crime fiction. Looking particularly at recent crime novels focussing on types of dementia, it explores how they affect expected generic endings to mount an ideological critique of a strictly medical and material model of identity formation. It does this through a re-working of today's hegemonic model of brain health, dominated by discourses of ‘neuroplasticity,’ looking in particular at how crime fiction can help us to think differently about cognitive differences and diseases.
Journal
Crime Fiction Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2020