Biomedicine, Self and Society

We scrutinise the complex social, cultural and technological landscape that characterises contemporary biomedicine and health care.

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) is a multidisciplinary research centre that builds on The University of Edinburgh’s unique history of leadership in social studies of science and medicine to scrutinise the complex social, cultural and technological landscape that characterises contemporary biomedicine and health care.

Bringing together established and emerging research leaders from across the University, the Centre aims to address the pressing problems currently facing biomedicine and society, and to effect lasting change in approaches to, developments from, and perspectives on global biomedical research. To that end, our work combines novel, integrative social science and humanities research with innovative approaches to collaboration, stakeholder and public engagement.

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society sits within the Usher Institute.

This article was published on 24 May, 2022