I was offered a position as a research officer at the LSE’s BIOS centre for the study of bioscience, biomedicine, biotechnology and society. My position which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is part of a project that will map the socio-political implications of the ‘new brain sciences’. My dissertation, which tackled the philosophical aspects of post-war mental health, combined with my background in medicine was definitely instrumental in securing me the offer. First, because it falls under the growing field of ‘neuro-ethics’ but also health care ethics with an international scope-both of interest to the current project. And second, the interdisciplinary approach I used in my argumentation was precisely what the interviewers were interested in: integrating sociology, applied ethics, morals, and politics to explain an empirical biomedical problem is one of the trademarks of BIOS.