Article ID: CBB381754775

Neurobiologically Poor? Brain Phenotypes, Inequality, and Biosocial Determinism (2019)

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Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 660-685


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health
Language: English

The rise of neuroplasticity has led to new fields of study about the relation between social inequalities and neurobiology, including investigations into the “neuroscience of poverty.” The neural phenotype of poverty proposed in recent neuroscientific research emerges out of classed, gendered, and racialized inequalities that not only affect bodies in material ways but also shape scientific understandings of difference. An intersectional, sociomaterial approach is needed to grasp the implications of neuroscientific research that aims to both produce and repair neurobiological difference. Following Benjamin’s critique of the “carceral imagination” of technoscience, this article considers how such research may fix in terms of helping, or in contrast, fix by classifying and reifying, vulnerable subjects. I address the potential for biosocial determinism in linking neural phenotypes and social problems. I use an intersectional approach to consider the presence and absence of race in this body of research and explore how some methodological and conceptual framings of the “brain on poverty” mark poor and minority children for intervention in concert with neoliberal approaches to poverty.

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Article Jonas Rüppel; Torsten H. Voigt (2019) The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 567-580). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Siena, Kevin P.
Lorenzo, Alfredo
Maibom, Heidi Lene
Judith Sutz
O’Connor, Cliodhna
Andrea Moro
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain
Poverty
Social class
Medicine and society
Equality
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
India
Great Britain
Scotland
United States
Europe
Asia
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