Fran Collyer
Fran Collyer
Differing accounts are conventionally given of the origins of medical sociology and its parent discipline sociology. These distinct "histories" are justified on the basis that the sociological founders were uninterested in medicine, mortali...
Richard A A Kanaan,Simon C Wessely
Richard A A Kanaan
Factitious disorder is the deliberate simulation of illness for the purpose of seeking the sick role. It is a 20th-century diagnosis, though the grounds for its introduction are uncertain. While previous authors have considered the social c...
Jonna Brenninkmeijer
Jonna Brenninkmeijer
The increasing attention to the brain in science and the media, and people's continuing quest for a better life, have resulted in a successful self-help industry for brain enhancement. Apart from brain books, foods and games, there are seve...
Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose
This article argues that a new diagram is emerging in the criminal justice system as it encounters developments in the neurosciences. This does not take the form that concerns many "neuroethicists" -- it does not entail a challenge to doctr...
Profitable failure: antidepressant drugs and the triumph of flawed experiments [0.03%]
益于失败：抗抑郁药物和有缺陷实验的胜利
Linsey McGoey
Linsey McGoey
Drawing on an analysis of Irving Kirsch and colleagues' controversial 2008 article in "PLoS [Public Library of Science] Magazine" on the efficacy of SSRI antidepressant drugs such as Prozac, I examine flaws within the methodologies of rando...
The persistence of the subjective in neuropsychopharmacology: observations of contemporary hallucinogen research [0.03%]
神经精神药理学中主观因素的持久性：当代致幻剂研究中的观察结果
Nicolas Langlitz
Nicolas Langlitz
The elimination of subjectivity through brain research and the replacement of so-called "folk psychology" by a neuroscientifically enlightened worldview and self-conception has been both hoped for and feared. But this cultural revolution is...
Joelle M Abi-Rached,Nikolas Rose
Joelle M Abi-Rached
The aim of this article is (1) to investigate the "neurosciences" as an object of study for historical and genealogical approaches and (2) to characterize what we identify as a particular "style of thought" that consolidated with the birth ...
Scott Vrecko
Scott Vrecko
In line with their vast expansion over the last few decades, the brain sciences -- including neurobiology, psychopharmacology, biological psychiatry, and brain imaging -- are becoming increasingly prominent in a variety of cultural formatio...
Steve Garlick
Steve Garlick
The invention of photography in the early 19th century changed the way that we see the world, and has played an important role in the development of western science. Notably, photographic vision is implicated in the definition of a new temp...
Magnus Hirschfeld, his biographies and the possibilities and boundaries of "biography" as "doing history." [0.03%]
Magnus Hirschfeld、其传记以及作为“做历史”的“传记”的可能性和局限性
Toni Brennan,Peter Hegarty
Toni Brennan
This article considers the two major biographies of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, MD (1868-1935), an early campaigner for "gay rights" avant la lettre. Like him, his first biographer Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986) was a Jewish doctor who lived...