Thanks to Adam for inviting me back to guest-post for a while. It's always a pleasure to be here!
I'm writing from my second year of an MSc at the London School of Economics' BIOS Centre, where I'm enjoying working with a lot of like-minded people interested in the social implications of biomedical technologies and science. After two years monkeying around in social and cognitive neuroscience with Bob Schultz's fMRI lab at Yale, I came to LSE to think about some of the social consequences of neuroimaging and other neurotechnologies... and have gotten wrapped up in quite a few non-neuro interests along the way. Wish me luck thinking and writing about: the legal and ethical implications of fMRI lie detection tech; media portrayals of and social responses to neuro research and images; brain-death ethics and policy; and identity creation in a neuro-age. Feel free to get in touch if you're chasing similar interests!
I'd also like to take a moment to notify readers about the BIOS-covened European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), self-described as "a multidisciplinary forum for timely engagement with the social, political and economic implications of developments in the neurosciences." The ENSN hosts a great list of open-access publications and an international directory of researchers interested in the social study of neuroscience. There's good thinking happening and it's a great group for idea-sharing -- and I'm sure they'd be happy if you join in.
Great links. Welcome back!
Posted by: Adam Kolber | 01/04/2008 at 09:25 PM