Posted On: February 11th 2025, 05:28 pm
Oliver Rollins - qualitative sociologist and assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at
@mit - discusses his research on race and the production and use of neuroscientific technologies with Logic(s)’
@suchetaghoshal. Neurocriminology, much like all science, does not happen in a vacuum; social, political, and economic structures restrict and enable this field. While locating the funding sources for neurocriminology research helps us make sense of the field’s priorities, questioning its ties to previously established forms of racial sciences such as eugenics leads us to a more fundamental question: Why does the US academy invest so much capital in the flawed scientistic endeavor of locating biological roots of violence?
🔗: Link in bio
📸: Photographs of fifty “criminal brains” from an exhibit by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, 1921. Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, via National Library of Medicine.
#NeuroRacism #Neurology #MedicalRacism #BioEthics #LogicsMagazine