Amanda van Beinum is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She previously worked as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics.

Amanda conducts research projects in the fields of sociology of health & medicine, science and technology studies, critical posthumanism, and medical ethics. She has been involved in clinical and ethnographic studies in hospitals and clinics and is an advocate for the incorporation of critical social science perspectives into medical research and practice. Her current work, which is part of the international HYBRID-MINDS research consortium explores embodied social and technological aspects of brain stimulation technologies as emerging therapies for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses.

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Amanda van Beinum is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She previously worked as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics.

Amanda conducts research projects in the fields of sociology of health & medicine, science and technology studies, critical posthumanism, and medical ethics. She has been involved in clinical and ethnographic studies in hospitals and clinics and is an advocate for the incorporation of critical social science perspectives into medical research and practice. Her current work, which is part of the international HYBRID-MINDS research consortium explores embodied social and technological aspects of brain stimulation technologies as emerging therapies for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses.

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