Andrew Ivan Brown

My name is Andrew Ivan Brown and I do qualitative social science research that is aggressively interdisciplinary. My topics of research include disability studies such as affirmative perspectives on ADHD 💃 beyond neurodiversity frameworks; the neuroethics of implantable neurotechnology 🧠; and science and technology studies of neuroscience and society and rhetoric in scientific research. My methodologies include ethnography (interviews and fieldwork), critical discourse analysis, and even surveys 🤓.

I’m currently a postdoctoral research associate with the neuroethics research group (website) in the department of philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. My work here includes attending lab sessions for a new deep brain stimulation device being developed to treat stroke-induced paralysis, interviewing research participants and their support partners (family, caregivers, etc.), and teaching Interdisciplinary Approaches to Neuroethics 👨‍🏫. I am also a labor activist ✊. Outside of work, I help with cat rescues and do other stuff that you can read about in my curriculum vitae 📃. If you’d like to chat about anything, feel free to contact me 📧.

A photo of Andrew and his cat. Andrew is a white, normal looking man. His cat is a black and white tuxedo, domestic short hair. The cat looks disgruntled.

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Neuroethics

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Screenshot of the first page of the article titled Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post‐trial Responsibilities in Neural‐Device Trials.

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In academic journals:

“The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers.” (With Katherine E. MacDuffie, Sara Goering, and Eran Klein.)

“Citizen science: why research participants are now being called ‘pioneers’.” (With Sara Goering and Eran Klein.)

More neuroethics in the works! Check back soon!

💃 Disability Studies

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In academic journals:

“It’s all a big interactive mess”: exploring the entanglement of standardized assessment practices and messy beliefs about ADHD in a research center in Japan.

An academic book:

In talks with editors about my book in progress, Advocating for ADHD.

🤓 Science and technology studies

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“Chronic Traumatic Masculinity,” Chapter 1

(With Aryn Martin)

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“Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is changing the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing.” (With Sara Goering and Eran Klein.)