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Nicholas Stücklin works at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne. He is writing a thesis on the relationship between humans and animals in the Life Sciences, and more specifically about the metamorphosis of the prairie vole, a North American rodent described as monogamous and bi-parental in zoology and brain science. He has also worked on the politics of compassion and on emotions as a tool of persuasion in organ donation in a research program at the National Research Pole in Affective Sciences. Alongside Emilie Bovet, he is co-president of STS-CH, an association that seeks to promote the social studies of science in Switzerland, by organising conferences and symposia between researchers.
Since the 1990s, which was proclaimed the “Decade of the brain” in the US by former president George Bush Sr., the rise of neuroscience has been considered a major scientific, historical, discursive, ...