Nikolas Rose
FBA, FAcSS, FRSA Nikolas Rose was Professor of Sociology at Kings College London from 2012 until his retirement in April 2021. He was the founding Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s and Co-Founder and Co-Director of King’s ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, the UK’s first major research centre on the social dimensions of mental distress.
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The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City
This is an important book for anyone interested in the entanglement of urban life and mental health. Rose and Fitzgerald make the compelling argument that many of the enduring questions of the social sciences can and should be revitalized through a critical and productive engagement with the biosciences. In The Urban Brain, they have done the essential work of mapping out a conceptual space for this encounter.
From the blog …
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The Serotonin Wars
I have been alternately mystified and exasperated by the confusing debate on serotonin related matters in depression on social media. So what follows are some random thoughts on current debates about depression, SSRIs, serotonin and the like, which may or may not, if suitably rearranged, amount to an argument.
