Thought this might be of interest in the light of some recent discussion. Bruce R ----- Original Message ----- From: Martyn Pickersgill To: SATSUNET@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 5:10 PM Subject: [SATSUNET] CfP edited collection Sociological Reflections on Neuroscience (Volume 11 of 'Advances in Medical Sociology') Apologies for Cross-Posting Dear colleagues, Please find attached a call for papers (abstract below) for the following edited collection: Sociological Reflections on Neuroscience (Volume 11 of 'Advances in Medical Sociology') Editors: Ira van Keulen (Rathenau Institute) and Martyn Pickersgill (University of Edinburgh) (Series Editor: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman) The Advances in Medical Sociology book series seeks submissions for a new volume on sociological reflections on the neurosciences. Neuroscience is an increasingly influential and prestigious branch of biomedicine, gaining ever more traction within a variety of policy, professional and public cultures. In some respects, neuroscientific ideas and concepts are replacing genetics as a paradigm for understanding the body, the mind and social order, and the relationships between these domains. Neuroscience therefore demands attention from sociologists. However, to-date, debate around the 'new brain sciences' has been limited within sociology, and it has mostly been ethicists who have opened up discussions on the important ethical and epistemological issues neuroscience raises. As a consequence, many of the discussions on the social, ethical, legal and policy implications of the rapidly growing field of the neurosciences have been primarily speculative and theoretical. Thus for this volume of Advances in Medical Sociology: Sociological Reflections on Neuroscience we are specifically looking for articles based on empirical research, from socio-historical analysis to ethnographic research, from surveys to in-depth interviews . Potential contributors should email a 300-500 word abstract by Monday February 15th 2010 to: socofneuroscience@rathenau.nl. Informal enquiries to this address are also welcome. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should also be supplied, including full contact details of the main author. Proposals will be reviewed by the editors, and authors notified by 5th April. The deadline for full submissions (7500-8500 words) will be 1st September. Publication of the volume is expected in late 2011. All best wishes, Martyn Dr Martyn Pickersgill | Research Fellow | Public Health Sciences Section | Division of Community Health Sciences | University of Edinburgh | martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk | http://edinburgh.academia.edu/MartynPickersgill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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