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About Chad Valasek
C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. CJ’s research interests include the history of the human sciences, the influence of the behavioral sciences on medical practice and health policy, and digital wellness culture.C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego.
NBN Episodes hosted by Chad:
November 26, 2021
Conviction
Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in…
April 5, 2021
Break on Through
"Antipsychiatry," Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. Th…
March 12, 2021
Decarcerating Disability
Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral fa…
February 5, 2021
Jim Crow Sociology
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology (U Cincinnati Press, 2020) is an extraordinary new volume that examines the ori…
January 5, 2021
The Empire of Depression
When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxi…
December 16, 2020
The Participant
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, a…
December 11, 2020
Sensory Experiments
We so often take our senses as natural, but perhaps we should understand them as historically situated. Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and t…
January 11, 2019
Geography of Digestion
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology aro…
November 21, 2018
Patent Politics
In Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Shobita Parthasa…
June 1, 2018
The Biopolitics of Feeling
Beginning with a discussion about Black Lives Matter may seem like an unlikely place to start a book about nineteenth century science and culture. How…
April 23, 2018
Science for the People
“What is needed now is not liberal reform or withdrawal, but a radical attack, a strategy of opposition. Scientific workers must develop ways to put t…
April 20, 2018
The Postgenomic Condition
How do we create meaning after the genome? Such a profound question is at the center of the recently published book by Jenny Reardon, The Postgenomic …