Amanda van Beinum
Assistant Professor
Email: amandavb@yorku.ca
Amanda van Beinum is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University with a specialization in the sociology of health and medicine. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with graduate training in science (MSc Epidemiology) and social science (PhD Sociology). Her current research focus employs a critical posthuman theoretical lens to interrogate the role of the “human” within various levels of the healthcare system. At present, her projects include exploring embodied social and technological aspects of brain stimulation technologies as emerging therapies for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. She is also a co-investigator in a transdisciplinary SSHRC funded research project exploring human-animal-environment relations and antimicrobial resistance in the dairy industry.
Degrees
PhD, Carleton UniversityMSc , University of Ottawa
BHSc, University of Ottawa
Research Interests
van Beinum, A., & Sherry, J. (2024). Interdisciplinary co-teaching as a sustainable model for health humanities pedagogy. Medical Humanities, 50(3), 513–519. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-012912
van Beinum, A. (2024). Rethinking human–technology relations: Exploring the sociopolitical dimensions of invasive brain stimulation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04268-8
van Beinum, A. (2025) Collective responsibility and individual endings – theorizing a posthuman death. [Book chapter forthcoming in Entangled Im/materialities (Ed. S. Adam), University of Toronto Press].
Amanda van Beinum is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University with a specialization in the sociology of health and medicine. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with graduate training in science (MSc Epidemiology) and social science (PhD Sociology). Her current research focus employs a critical posthuman theoretical lens to interrogate the role of the “human” within various levels of the healthcare system. At present, her projects include exploring embodied social and technological aspects of brain stimulation technologies as emerging therapies for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. She is also a co-investigator in a transdisciplinary SSHRC funded research project exploring human-animal-environment relations and antimicrobial resistance in the dairy industry.
Degrees
PhD, Carleton UniversityMSc , University of Ottawa
BHSc, University of Ottawa
Research Interests
All Publications
van Beinum, A., & Sherry, J. (2024). Interdisciplinary co-teaching as a sustainable model for health humanities pedagogy. Medical Humanities, 50(3), 513–519. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-012912
van Beinum, A. (2024). Rethinking human–technology relations: Exploring the sociopolitical dimensions of invasive brain stimulation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04268-8
van Beinum, A. (2025) Collective responsibility and individual endings – theorizing a posthuman death. [Book chapter forthcoming in Entangled Im/materialities (Ed. S. Adam), University of Toronto Press].
