Neuroscience promises to unlock the secrets of the brain and release powerful forces for healing and well-being, albeit at the cost of erasing free will and moral responsibility. <i>Biopolitics after Neuroscience</i> powerfully traces the roots of this project in a social imaginary spawned by eighteenth-century political economy, linked with the rise of utilitarian moral theory, and bound up with policing the “undeserving” poor. The brain is imagined as a new invisible hand, the secrets of which can be unlocked through neuroscience and directed toward the formation of maximally efficient, productive economic citizens. Bishop, Lysaught and Michel’s bold analysis should give readers pause about jumping on this latest Big Science bandwagon.

Jennifer A. Herdt, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale University, USA

This is the sort of volume I have eagerly awaited. The authors skillfully describe how neoliberal values have shaped neuroscientific research. However, their argument transcends this specialty. After this book, no discipline—academic or otherwise—can afford to ignore how its practitioners may unknowingly serve their political and economic masters.

Bruce Rogers-Vaughn, Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA

This book is a necessary read for anyone interested in theological ethics, bio-ethics, or the neurosciences. Bishop et al. weave a complex yet clear narrative of the underlying anthropologies which govern the contemporary political economy and its relation to the neurosciences.

Canadian-American Theological Review

<p>With clarity and erudition, the authors have written an incredibly ambitious and creative book,<br />balancing a precise line of argumentation with an extensively researched critique of contemporary neuroscience which, they claim, can be traced to the founding thinkers of Western political economy.</p>

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics