Genetics

Scientific supremacy as an obstacle to establishing and sustaining interdisciplinary dialogue across knowledge paradigms in health care and medicine

This article by Birgitta Haga Gripsrud has been published in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. The article stems originally from a debate about genetics in relation to breast cancer. However, its discussion about qualitative research (as distinct from quantitative research) and…
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I studied neuroscience to understand my addictions. Now I know it’s not the cure

“Substance misuse is not a simple problem of brain chemistry. The most powerful influences lie outside our heads” Writing in The Guardian , Judith Grisel says: “I used to think addiction was caused by screwy molecules in the brain, and would be…
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Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?

“As I researched this book, I came to realise that there were actually two separate stories that needed telling. One was the story of biological psychiatry, with its emphasis on bio-genetic explanations for mental illness and somatic remedies, and the…
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Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body

This book has been written by Dr. Colin Ross and Prof. Alvin Pam. The publishers say: “… not a day passes without the media proclaiming yet another sensational breakthrough in the search for the physical origins of mental illness. But beyond…
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Neurodiversity – the key that unlocked my world

This 18 minute video features Elisabeth Wiklander, speaking at a TEDxGöteborg event. The preamble says: “What do you think about, when you hear the word, ‘autism’? No diagnostic manual can truly explain the multifaceted experience of autism. It’s a neurological…
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Buzzword Bingo: Schizophrenia Gene Discovery

From the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry : “Don’t get me wrong – I’m very keen to learn about the latest scientific findings on the ‘Genetics of Mental Illness’. Does schizophrenia really have a ‘significant genetic component’ as is so often claimed? The hunt is on….
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