2010 was a good year for neuroscience-and-society conferences. We’ve already written about three of them on this site. And here’s another: “Translating the Brain: Ethics, Publics, Prospect,” was convened late last year at the University of Edinburgh by Martyn Pickersgill, Christina Plafky and Sarah Cunningham-Burley:
The symposium sought to examine the place, role and impact of
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The Journal of Health and Social Behavior recently ran a supplemental issue dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the journal and of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. The issue is made up of a series of reviews about key issues in medical sociology written by some of the leading scholars in the sub-discipline. Aside from being …
This announcement is being circulated by Eric Racine (IRCM):
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the call for abstract (talks, panels, posters) for Brain Matters 2, an international conference in neuroethics, is now open. The deadline for submission is …
This post was contributed by Roberto Abadie (CUNY)
A few years ago anthropologist Michaela di Leonardo invited anthropologists to focus on what she called “exotics at home”. Her intention was to re-center anthropological inquiry, shifting the discipline’s emphasis on “the other”, often living in remote cultures, to groups living among us, right at home. Di Leonardo reminded us …
Review of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliott.
Beacon Press, 2010. 213 pages. $24.95 (Hardcover).
The commercial provenance of claims about the innovativeness and safety of medicines renders them liable to skepticism. The patina from the endlessly told and retold legends of the scientific heroism of drug companies that brought us penicillin, …
The journal Sociology of Health and Illness has launched a series of podcasts called “Key thinkers and debates” which will feature “interviews and discussions with key figures in the sociology of health and illness.” The first podcasts they’ve posted are two video interviews with medical sociology pioneer Renée Fox, one titled “Reflections on the development of …