Graduate Student, Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley, Science, Technology, and Society Center
About
Mark Robinson is interested in the anthropological study of science, technology and medicine. His research focuses on questions in translational medicine generally as well as questions about ethics and emerging biomedical technologies. Mark’s dissertation focuses on neurotechnology and the merging of public-private partnerships around academic bioscience and biomedicine. Mark’s larger interests include bioethics, neuroethics, theories of innovation/technological change and psychopharmaceuticalization. Mark has received support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the National Academies of Science, Harvard’s Institute for Social Inequality as well as the Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton. Mark is a presently a Visiting Scholar at the Science, Technology and Society Center at the University of California Berkeley.
