Dr Joelle Abi Rached

Research Officer
Project: Brain, Self and Society: the social and political implications of the new brain sciences
Funder: The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Research Interests:

Ethics; Political philosophy; Genealogy; Neuroscience and Society; Memory research; PTSD; Stress and anxiety research; Traumatic memories; War-related memory-related mental health disorders; Animal models and modelling psychiatric disorders; Social and Mental capital.

Background:

Joelle received her undergraduate education at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she completed her B.S. in Biology (with Distinction) in 2002. She then enrolled in medical school and obtained her MD in 2006 from AUB. While in medical school she completed two medical clerkships at Harvard Medical School (nephrology) and Tufts Medical School (psychiatry). After graduating from medicine, she was awarded a PJD Wiles Scholarship from the LSE to complete an MSc. in Philosophy and Public Policy (2006). Her thesis entitled, ‘The Ethical Dimensions of Post-war Mental Health’ was published in a book comprising the dissertations of the eleven PJD Wiles Scholars for the year 2006-2007. She joined BIOS in October 2007 as a Research Officer to work with Professor Nikolas Rose on the ‘Brain Self and Society’ project funded by the ESRC.

Selected Publications:

Book Chapters

Abi Rached, JM. (2008). The Ethical Dimensions of Post-War Mental Health. In The Msc dissertations of the PJD Wiles Scholars-London School of Economics. Published by Abraaj Capital and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Abi-Rached, JM and Rose, N. (2010). The birth of the neuromolecular gaze. History of the Human Sciences (special issue on the brain sciences). 23(1) (In press)

Abi-Rached, JM. (Dec 2009) Post-war mental health, wealth and justice. Traumatology (special issue on History, Memory and Trauma). (In press).

Abi-Rached, JM and Dudai, Y (2009). The Implications of Memory Research and Memory-Erasing Pills: A Conversation with Yadin Dudai. BioSocieties. 4(1): 79-90.

Abi-Rached, JM (2008). The implications of the new brain sciences. EMBO reports. 9(12): 1158-1162.

Ahmed SB, Abi Rached JM, Singh AK, Charytan DM. (2006). A 39 year old pregnant women with polyuria and hypomagnesemia. Kidney International. 69(5): 938-41.

Invited Conference Papers

Abi-Rached, JM (2009). ‘The birth of the neuromolecular gaze’ (paper written with Nikolas Rose) at ‘Objects of Knowledge, Objects of Exchange: Contours of (Inter)disciplinarity’. Humanities Centre, Boston, Harvard University. April, 2009.

Abi-Rached, JM. (2008) ‘Beyond the origin: Mapping the birth(s) of modern neurosciences’ at ‘Our Brains, Our Selves - Aarhus Mirror Workshop Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to the New Brain Sciences'. Organized by ENSN in conjunction with the Global Minds Conference, University of Aarhus. Aarhus, Denmark. December, 2008.

Reports & Working Papers

Abi-Rached, JM (2008). The New Brain Sciences: Field or Fields? Brain Self and Society Paper No. 2. BIOS (Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society), London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK.
Available at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/brainSelfSociety/publications.htm 

Abi-Rached, JM (2008). Mapping the Field of the New Brain Sciences: methodological, conceptual and technical dimensions. Brain Self and Society Paper No. 3. BIOS (Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society), London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK.
Available at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/brainSelfSociety/publications.htm 

Abi-Rached, JM. (2007). ENSN Launch, London November 2007-Neuroscience and Society: a multidendritic neuron. Brain Self and Society Paper No. 1. BIOS (Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society), London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK.
Available at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/brainSelfSociety/publications.htm 

Dissertation

Abi-Rached, JM (2007). The Ethical Dimensions of Post-War Mental Health. MSc dissertation. London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK.

Contact details: J.M.Abi-Rached@lse.ac.uk

Website of the Brain Self and Society project: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/brainSelfSociety/