Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity is first and foremost the authors' personal account of the experience of being (together or separately) part of various groups that brought together among others social scientists, humanities researchers and neuroscientists. Rethinking Interdisciplinarity is a valuable resource for the medical humanities as it provides an insight into the challenges experienced (and confronted) by researchers in a diverse range of fields. Rethinking Interdisciplinarity is a worthwhile read for everyone involved in collaborative practice. (Dr. Svetlana Sholokhova, Centre for Medical Humanities, centreformedicalhumanities.org, December, 2016)

The book is beautifully written. The vignettes from the field are vivid and offer rich insights into the ups and downs of co-laborative fieldwork in the neurosciences. The book sets out to deliver an honest account of 'what goes into and what goes on in' experimental entanglements within the neurosciences and it is successful in delivering that. (Jörg Niewöhner, Somato Sphere, somatosphere.net, February, 2016)

Autorentext

Felicity Callard is Director of Hubbub, the first interdisciplinary residency of The Hub at Wellcome Collection and Reader in Social Science for Medical Humanities at the Department of Geography and Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK.

Des Fitzgerald is Lecturer in Sociology, in the School of Social Sciences, at Cardiff University, UK. He has wide-ranging interests in the sociologies of neuroscience and psychiatry.

Inhalt
Introduction: Not Another Book About Interdisciplinarity 1. Meeting People is Easy: The Pragmatics of Interdisciplinary Collaboration 2. "Which Way Does It Go Between You Two?": Modes of Interdisciplinary Intervention 3. Environmental Entanglements: Neurological Lives and Social Worlds 4. States of Rest: Interdisciplinary Experiments 5. Choreographing the Interdisciplinary 6. Against Reciprocity: Dynamics of Power in Interdisciplinary Spaces 7. Feeling Fuzzy: The Emotional Life of Interdisciplinary Collaboration Epilogue