Nikolas Rose
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La invención del sí mismo. Poder, ética y subjetivación (Inventing our selves, Cambridge University Press, 1996) constituye una de las obras de mayor importancia del sociólogo británico Nikolas Rose, figura destacada dentro de los estudios de la gubernamentalidad en el Reino Unido. Dentro de un marco de inspiración foucaultiana, aunque con una propuesta profundamente original, el libro da cuenta de un esfuerzo consistente por perfilar una aproximación...
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Nikolas Rose is James Martin White Professor of Sociology and Director of the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include The Psychological Complex, Governing the Soul, Inventing Our Selves, and Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought.
For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical...
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Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness
Most of the world's people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion,...
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Nikolas Rose is professor of sociology and head of the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine at King's College London. His books include The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton). Joelle M. Abi-Rached is a PhD candidate in the history of science at Harvard University.
How the new brain sciences are transforming our understanding of what it means to be human
The brain sciences...