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BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society

The Director of BIOS is Martin White Professor of Sociology at LSE, Professor Nikolas Rose, who has been recently awarded an ESRC Professorial Research Fellowship for a three year project entitled 'Brain, Self and Society in the 21st Century'.

Governmentality

The concept has been elaborated further from an "Anglo-Neo Foucauldian" perspective in the social sciences, especially by authors such as Peter Miller, Nikolas Rose, and Mitchell Dean.

Healthism

Following Skrabanek, Nikolas Rose has described "healthism" as a doctrine that links the "public objectives for the good health and good order of the social body with the desire of individuals for health and well-being".

Nikolas Rose

For six years he was managing editor of Economy and Society, one of the UK’s leading interdisciplinary journal of social science, and he is now co-editor of BioSocieties: An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences.

Psychology of self

In Inventing our selves: Psychology, power, and personhood, Nikolas Rose (1998) proposes that psychology is now employed as a technology that allows humans to buy into an invented and arguably false sense of self.

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