In what seems a season of special issues, Body & Society has a special double issue (Sept. and Dec. 2012) entitled “Medicine, Bodies, Politics: Experimentation and Emergence”. Editors Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten’s extensive introduction alone makes the issue valuable, to say nothing of the compelling six articles and afterward that follow it.
The following are the abstracts for …
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 Mark Robinson (Princeton University).
From New York Times Op-ed pieces to educational toys for toddlers, the culture of neuroscience has far exceeded the confines of the laboratory. Anthropologists and others have traced neuroscience’s entry into the everyday – the courtroom, the pharmacy, the boardroom and the clinic. Yet, a more subtle transformation around neuroscience has …