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Book Review: The Madness within Us: Schizophrenia as a Neuronal Process by...
The Madness within Us: Schizophrenia as a Neuronal Processby Robert Freedman Oxford University Press, 2009. 198 pages. $35.00 (hardcover) A perusal of The Madness within Us: Schizophrenia as a Neuronal...
View ArticleAnnouncing forthcoming posts from Neuroschool 2010 by Neely Myers
Dear Somatosphere readers, Next week I will be posting a daily description of my experiences at Neuroschool 2010 at the University of Wuerzberg in Germany. This year lectures and laboratory practicals...
View ArticleCall for Research: Ethnography, Psychosis and At-Risk Groups by Neely Myers
An article this week in Nature highlights new issues surrounding the intersections of psychosis, clinical risk, and adolescence. Psychosis is now thought to lie along a “continuum” in the population...
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Book Review: Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis by Neely Myers
Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease (Beacon Press, 2010) is an ideal introductory text for introducing students to ethical issues surrounding politics,...
View ArticleThe Neuroanthropology of Embodiment, Absorption, and Dissociation by Neely Myers
Got Absorption? Towards a Neuroanthropology of Play and Ritual Cross-posted with Neuroanthropology. On Thursday, Nov. 17th at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, I...
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The Afflictions Series: an Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert...
When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how ethnographic films can help us...
View ArticleThe collaborative turn: interdisciplinarity across the human sciences by...
Questions of health, medicine and science have long animated sub-disciplinary attentions in the social sciences and humanities. Recently, however, research around these topics has taken a marked...
View ArticleRespect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects by Neely Myers
As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). As others have noted, this crisis has...
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