Psychiatric genetics has made substantial progress in the last decade, providing new
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders, and paving the way for precision …

The “reproducibility crisis” has been one of the most significant stories in science in the past
15 years and has led to significant policy changes across the research landscape. Yet …

Trauma is associated with the appearance of the concept of 'accident'as a social and legal
entity, as well as with the successive discoveries of surgery, psychiatrics, and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has inversed certainties of absolutes of cure in everyday life but
paradoxically this has occurred during a time when novel scientific advancements seem to …

This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on
American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology …

Psychiatry and clinical psychology have long been divided about the roles of nature and
nurture in the pathways to psychopathology. Some clinicians offer treatment almost entirely …

The opaque relationship between biology and behavior is an intractable problem for
psychiatry, and it increasingly challenges longstanding diagnostic categorizations. While …

In the comedy Mother Bombie (c. 1589), John Lyly presents a highly verbal conception of
human wit as a key element of emergent capitalism, presents it as inconsistent with the …

This paper provides a relational analysis of the medicalization of prodromal psychosis, a
period of low-level symptoms that might or might not escalate into an official psychotic …

Abstract “Hypernormal science” has minimal potential for contestation on matters of principle
and practice so that information exchange can be unproblematic. Sciences comprise …