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• Simon Outram is a postdoctoral fellow at NTE with States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics, and Therapeutic Hopes and Ethical Concerns: Clinical Research in the Neurosciences. Simon has a background in Social Anthropology (M.A. University of M...More

  Simon Outram is a postdoctoral fellow at NTE with States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics, and Therapeutic Hopes and Ethical Concerns: Clinical Research in the Neurosciences. Simon has a background in Social Anthropology (M.A. University of Manchester) and Environmental Epidemiology (M.Sc London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). He completed his PhD in May 2007 (St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London). Since completing the PhD Simon joined the Open University Innogen Research Centre in September 2007 to conduct research exploring biotechnology and science communication within sub-Saharan Africa. His current research interests include: social and institutional sanctioning of the use of cognitive enhancement pharmaceuticals; social concepts of brain and mind development and their relationship to scientific research; and, contested concepts of risk and benefit in relation to neurosurgery. Less

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