Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences

by Felicity Callard, Des Fitzgerald

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. Rethinking Interdisciplinarity does not merely advocate interdisciplinary research, but attends to the hitherto tacit pragmatics, affects, power dynamics, and spatial logics in which that research is enfolded. Understanding the complex relationships between brains, minds, and environments requires a delicate, playful and genuinely experimental interdisciplinarity, and this book shows us how it can be done.
This book is open access under a CC-BY license and funded by The Wellcome Trust.

167 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2015

Reviews

[Kevin Megill · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wooden writing, not recommended. But it was fascinating to see how a member of the "interpretative sciences" was thinking. She apologizes at the end for getting along with the scientists she was writing about. She seems to feel that to see the other person's point of view is to sell out to the system somehow; that the only appropriate stance is a combative one.