Nikolas Rose is director of the BIOS centre at London School of Economics and is an international renowned social theorist and has published widely on the social and political history of the human sciences, on the genealogy of subjectivity, and most recently, the political, social and ethical implications of recent developments in the life sciences, notably neuroscience and psychopharmacology. He is investigating the ways in which these developments change our ideas about normality and abnormality, about the distinction between cure and enhancement, about the borderlines between illness and health and about human life itself.
BIOS is a multidisciplinary centre at the LSE for research into contemporary developments in the life sciences, biomedicine and biotechnology. Much of the centres work explores the implications of biomedicine for personhood and identity, political economy, the organisation and funding of health care, and government regulation.