Medicine, neurosciences and interdisciplinarity

Education in Medicine: Moving the Boundaries to Foster Interdisciplinarity

Psychiatry and the neurosciences

The last 10 years have witnessed encouraging developments in our incipient understanding of some of the brain events that form the material substratum for normal and abnormal psychic function and behaviour. Notable examples are the discovery of the role of dopamine in Parkinsonism and the role of serotonin and noradrenaline in manic-depressive disorders. This has led, for the first time in neur...

Gender studies and interdisciplinarity

In this article we consider the example of gender studies as an interdisciplinary field, and argue that gender studies, and women’s studies, from which gender studies developed, has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity. By thinking about the trajectory of women’s studies, feminist thinking and gender studies, we suggest that this has always been an interdisciplinary field of study....

Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity

“Interdisciplinarity” is now a buzzword for more than 40 years since Erich Jantsch coined the term for a broader audience, together with “transdisciplinarity” (Jantsch 1970; see also Apostel et al. 1972). The exact meaning of these and related terms seems to be still in flux. However, as Britt Holbrook explains in the first contribution to this special issue, we can observe a convergence in the...

Galen and the Neurosciences

He was more analytic than Hippocrates in his dissertations, concerning the description of the diseases and pathological conditions, attempting to associate the clinical medicine with the experimental investigation [5]. Galen as an author was very productive. His extensive work covered almost every scientific and philosophical field. He composed more than five hundred dissertations on anatomy, m...