title: From brain to neuro: the brain research association and the making of British neuroscience, 1965-1996.
abstract: This article explores the short history of "neuroscience" as a discipline in its own right as opposed to the much longer past of the brain sciences. It focuses on one historical moment, the formation of the first British "neuroscience" society, the Brain Research Association (BRA), renamed in 1996 to the British Neuroscience Association (BNA). It outlines the new thinking brought about by this new science of brain, mind, and behavior, it sketches the beginnings of the BRA and the institutionalization of neuroscience in the British context, and it further explores the ambiguous relation the association had towards some of the ethical, social, and political implications of this new area of research.
authors.affiliation: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. jabi@fas.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Joelle M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Abi-Rached
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D032984:Ethics, Research; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011057:Politics; D016730:Program Development; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States