Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2019-20

Welcome

This book was written by students of University College London.

Hello and welcome to the Wikibook Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2019–20.

This book is collaboratively written by students at University College London (UCL) taking the module 'Approaches to Knowledge', a first-year undergraduate course that forms part of the core of the Arts and Sciences degree programme.

The book is split into four sections, covering four common issues facing those conducting interdisciplinary work:

• History
• Truth
• Evidence
• Power

Each chapter explores how one of these issues might play out in an actual example of interdisciplinary work.

Potential readers may range from stakeholders in interdisciplinary education (e.g. educators or policy-makers) to students thinking of pursuing an interdisciplinary degree programme, either at UCL or elsewhere.

This book is a sequel to the Wikibook Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2018-19.

Any interested parties can contact the module convenors, James Everest and Lauren Bird, for further information. Contact details are available on the UCL Arts and Sciences departmental webpage.

Contents

History

• History of the Nuclear Family in Britain
• The issue of History in the 2013 - 2016 EVD epidemic
• The Issue of History in Wellbeing

Truth

• Truth in Lie Detection through Neurolaw
• Truth in the Ted Bundy Case
• Truth in Free Will
• Truth in The Nanjing Massacre
• Truth in the Prison System
• Truth in the Formation of Social Groups
• Truth in Nazi Germany
• Truth in the Creation of the Universe
• Truth in Gender
• Truth in the treatment of hysteria: from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century
• Truth in Abortion
• Interdisciplinary Depictions of Human Nature
• Truth in Cults
• Truth in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
• Truth in The Advertisement of Tobacco

Evidence

• Evidence in Dreams' Significance
• Evidence in Religious Experience
• Evidence in the Causes of Homosexuality
• Evidence in the Afterlife
• Evidence in the Nature of Crime
• Evidence in Intermittent Fasting
• Evidence in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
• Evidence of the Vichy-Regime after World War Two
• Evidence: Is private school really better than public school?
• Evidence in Addiction

Power

• Power in corporate aggregation
• Power in single-parent families
• Power in the impact of Pornography
• Power of the Unconscious in Decision Making
• Power and Pregnancy
• Power in Guilt
• Power in Blaxploitation Cinema
• Power Over Disney Princesses
• Power in Voluntourism
• Power in climate action
• Power in Film Production
• The Power of the Hijab
• Power in the United States Opioid Crisis