Andrew Ivan Brown

Research Fellow

  • Usher Institute
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
  • Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society

Contact details

Address

Street

Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Usher Building
5-7 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - Gate 3

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4UX

Biography

Background

Andrew Ivan Brown is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. He is currently working on the ARIA-funded project, ‘Neurology Navigates Neurotech (3N): Understanding the Experiences and Expectations of Neurology Clinicians in relation to the Promise of Precision Neurotechnology,’ led by Martyn Pickersgill.

Andrew’s interdisciplinary work intersects neuroethics, disability studies, and science and technology studies. His topics of research include the ethics of implantable neurotechnology, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) like Neuralink and deep brain stimulation (DBS), as well as affirmative perspectives on ADHD beyond neurodiversity frameworks.

He previously held a postdoctoral research associate position in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. There, he conducted 32 interviews with heads of neurotech labs, brain surgeons, neural engineers, and other researchers involved in clinical trials for BCIs in humans, as well as BCI participants and their caregivers.

CV

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Qualifications

PhD, MA, BA(Hons)

Research summary

ADHD, STS, ethnography, neuroethics, implantable neurotechnology, BCIs, DBS, neurodiversity, critical disability studies, critical theory, biopolitics, governmentality critiques, Marxist thought, social and political theory, medical sociology, philosophy of biology

 

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