Neuroscience and social justice: The political uses and misuses of the brain sciences

Abstract

In 2019, an interdisciplinary event entitled "Political uses of neuroscientific evidence on poverty" was held at the Cultural Center of Science of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. A meeting of reflection and debate”. There, the prominent sociologist Nikolas Rose made a presentation focused on the review and historicization of certain key notions and their biopolitical effects. Here is his conference called: "Neuroscience and social justice: The political uses and misuses of the brain sciences".