Neuroscientists Cubelli and Della Sala (2018) call for a ban on the term “race” to help
minimizing the impacts of racism on the brain sciences. They rightly note that the term race …

Recent scientific and policy initiatives frame clinical settings as sites for intervening upon
inequality. Electronic health records and data analytic technologies offer opportunity to …

Research about the brain–in particular, what has become known as neuroscience–has long
been enrolled within, and often purported to direct, debates around the constitution and …

Scholars have revealed how moral evaluation is woven into formal administrative
processes. While research examining these dynamics tends to assume that a person's …

Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using
expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the …

Research on scientific/intellectual movements, and social movements generally, tends to
focus on resources and conditions outside the substance of the movements, such as funding …

There is currently widespread agreement among scholars that neuroscientific investigations
that purport to delineate sex-and gender-related structural and functional brain differences …

In practice, it entails “reading the shape of the skull to interpret and predict powers of mind
and character”(p. 2). Though now an exemplar of pseudoscience, phrenology experienced a …

Algorithms and society research has focused attention on the ways that algorithms either
reproduce or alter longstanding social patterns. It often aims to diagnose or fix algorithm …

The use of machine learning (ML) for scientific discovery has enabled data-driven
approaches to new and old questions alike. We argue that scientific arguments based on …