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Call for contributions to a new editorial project

In the last twenty years, the neurosciences have extended the study of neurobiological mechanisms to research fields that traditionally pertained to disciplines such as psychiatry, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and economy. The emergence of disciplines such as neurofinance, neuromarketing, or neurotheology suggests a form of unprecedented “neurocontamination.” The possibility of such new perspectives lies in the powerful input brought by neuro-imaging technologies and their statistical methods. While this is a highly visible phenomenon, it is not the only type of association between the techniques, tools, and concepts of the neurosciences with those of the social sciences. Not only have neurosciences appropriated objects and relationships that pertain a priori to the clinic as well as the human and social sciences, but the latter have also, in return, integrated data and methodologies from the brain sciences to question their own vested knowledge. Such exchanges have also recently become the object of a discussion around the unprecedented reconfigurations of the disciplines that are at stakes and their own tools.

The journal EspacesTemps.net and the research group “Clinic, neurosciences, human and social sciences”* of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Public Health (University of Lausanne and Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois), with the support of the College of Humanities (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), are keen to promote multidisciplinary work addressing the social and epistemological stakes of these reconfigurations through a new editorial initiative. This call for contributions is open to all researchers working at the interface of the neurosciences and the human and social sciences and/or with a critical and reflexive perspective. The contributions, written in French or English and in accordance with EspacesTemps.net’s editorial criteria, can take the following formats:

• peer-reviewed scientific articles,
• essays,
• work-in-progress research reports,
• book reviews.

Additionally, the “Resources” section will host primary and secondary sources of crucial historical and epistemological interest. Thanks to its dynamic design, EspacesTemps.net can also host audiovisual and iconographic content.

To send your paper or paper proposal, or to be kept updated on the project, please fill in the adjacent form.

*Composed of researchers in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, history, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology, the group “Clinic, neurosciences, human and social sciences” aims at developing and promoting knowledge and expertise at the intersection of the natural and human sciences by understanding how brain research reshapes clinical practice in mental health.