Martyn Pickersgill | The University of Edinburgh

Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine

Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3202
Email: martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk
Web: Martyn's profile on Edinburgh Research Explorer

Usher Institute

Street: Old Medical School
Teviot Place
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AG

Publications

Prudence, Pleasure, and Cognitive Ageing: Configurations of the Uses and Users of Brain Training Games within UK Media, 2005-2015 Aug 2017 In: Social Science & Medicine, vol. 187, pp. 93-100
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.028
Contribution To journal › Article (Published)
“It just opens up their world” : Autism, empathy, and the therapeutic effects of Equine interactions 17 May 2017 In: Anthropology and Medicine, pp. 1-15
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1291115
Contribution To journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Problematisations of Complexity: On the Notion and Production of Diverse Complexities in Healthcare Interventions and Evaluations 19 Sep 2016 In: Science as Culture
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1212003
Contribution To journal › Article (Published)
The Movement of Research from the Laboratory to the Living Room: a Case Study of Public Engagement with Cognitive Science Aug 2016 In: Neuroethics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 159-171
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12152-016-9259-6
Contribution To journal › Article (Published)
Epistemic Modesty, Ostentatiousness and the Uncertainties of Epigenetics : On the Knowledge Machinery of (Social) Science Mar 2016 In: The Sociological Review, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 186-202
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2059-7932.12020
Contribution To journal › Literature review (Published)
Enhancement, ethics and society: towards an empirical research agenda for the medical humanities and social sciences 1 Dec 2015 In: Medical Humanities, vol. 41, no. 2
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010718
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(Low) Expectations, Legitimization, and the Contingent Uses of Scientific Knowledge: Engagements with Neuroscience in Scottish Social Policy and Services 3 Oct 2015 In: Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, vol. 1, pp. 47-66
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2015.003
Contribution To journal › Article (Published)
The changing brain : Neuroscience and the enduring import of everyday experience 1 Oct 2015 In: Public Understanding of Science
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662514521550
Contribution To journal › Article (Published)
Targeting brains, producing responsibilities : The use of neuroscience within British social policy (8 pages) May 2015 In: Social Science & Medicine, vol. 132, pp. 54-61
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.022
Contribution To journal › Article (Published)
Neuroscience, epigenetics and the intergenerational transmission of social life: exploring expectations and engagements (4 pages) 1 Nov 2014 In: Families, Relationships and Societies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 481-484
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674314X14110461422823
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This article was published on Oct 16, 2017