Andrew Ivan Brown

My name is Andrew Ivan Brown and I do qualitative social science research that is aggressively interdisciplinary. My topics of research include disability studies such as affirmative perspectives on ADHD 💃 beyond neurodiversity frameworks; the neuroethics of implantable neurotechnology 🧠; and science and technology studies of neuroscience and society and rhetoric in scientific research. My methodologies include ethnography (interviews and fieldwork), discourse analysis, and even surveys 🤓.

I’m currently a research fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. I’m funded by ARIA (UK’s new DARPA-inspired funding agency, without the militarism) under their “precision neurotechnology” programme. I am also a Research Affiliate in the neuroethics research group at the University of Washington in Seattle (where I taught a 400-level philosophy course on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Neuroethics 👨‍🏫 ). Outside of academic work, I help with cat rescues and sometimes do a bit of labor activism ✊.

A photo of Andrew and his cat. Andrew is a white, normal looking man. His cat is a black and white tuxedo, domestic short hair. The cat looks disgruntled.

💃 Disability Studies

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Be sure to check out Jesse Meadow’s wonderful video about my theory of ADHD:

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Link to my dissertation

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Read my brief retrospective on my dissertation here

More Critical ADHD Studies articles in the works! Check back soon!

Neuroethics

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Screenshot of the first page of the article titled Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post‐trial Responsibilities in Neural‐Device Trials.

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More neuroethics in the works! Check back soon!

🤓 Science and technology studies

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“Chronic Traumatic Masculinity,” Chapter 1

(With Aryn Martin)

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“Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing.” (With Sara Goering and Eran Klein.) Science as Culture [under revision]