Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/ Gender) Neuroscience
Author: Hannah Fitsch
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2022-02-17
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 2889742865
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Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain
Author: Aileen Kennedy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1003824153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book challenges law’s reliance on neurology’s brain-sex binary. The brain has become the latest candidate in a historical search for a reliable and fixed biological marker of ‘true sex’ that has permeated every aspect of Western culture, including law. As definitions of the sexed and gendered body have become ever more contentious, the development and dissemination of brain-sex theories have come to dominate popular understanding of LGBTI+ identities. But, this book argues, the brain is no more helpful than earlier biological measures in ensuring just outcomes. Examining how law determines and differentiates ‘male’ and ‘female’ in two contested areas of sexed identity –through a discussion of Australian cases authorising medical interventions to alter the embodied sex characteristics of transgender minors and intersex minors –the book demonstrates an incoherence in the legal understanding of gender identity development. As the brain too fails as a convincing biological anchor for the binary sex categories of male and female, law must, it is argued, retreat from its aspiration to create, define, and regulate artificially bounded sex categories of male and female. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in a range of disciplines who are working at the intersection of law, gender, and sexuality.
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
Author: Alexandra Roginski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-06
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1316519449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compelling history of popular phrenology in the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of the nineteenth-century Tasman World.
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
Author: F. Callard
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1137407964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.
Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle
Author: Karin Bijsterveld
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 3031111087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and collaborate. Drawing on extensive examples from the humanities and social sciences, the editors and chapter authors show how they started, tried to open up, dealt with inconsistencies, had to adapt, and ultimately learned and grew as researchers. The book offers valuable insights into the conditions and complexities present for interdisciplinary research to be successful in an academic setting. This is an open access book.
Neurofeminism
Author: Robyn Bluhm
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-01-27
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0230368387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain research on intersex conditions tell us about sex and gender?
Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory
Author: F. Vander Valk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1136344039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The past 20 years have seen increasingly bold claims emanating from the field of neuroscience. Advances in medical imaging, brain modelling, and interdisciplinary cognitive science have forced us to reconsider the nature of social, cultural, and political activities. This collection of essays is the first to explore the relationship between neuroscience and political theory, with a view to examining what connections can be made and which claims represent a bridge too far. The book is divided into three parts: Part I: places neuroscience as a social and political practice into historical context Part II: weaves together the insights from contemporary neuroscience with the wisdom of major figures in the history of political thought Part III: considers how neuroscience can inform contemporary debates about a range of issues in political theory This work brings together scholars who are sceptical about the possibility of integrating neuroscience and political theory with proponents of a neuroscience-informed approach to thinking about political and social life. The result is a timely and wide-ranging collection of essays about the role that our brain might play in the life of the body politic. It should be essential reading for all those with an interest in the cutting edge of political theory.
Critical Neuroscience
Author: Suparna Choudhury
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011-11-07
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781444333282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critical Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. Original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience Furthers the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities Transcends traditional scepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about science Features contributions from eminent scholars including Steven Rose, Joseph Dumit, Laurence Kirmayer, Shaun Gallagher, Fernando Vidal, Allan Young and Joan Chiao
Brain Theory
Author: C. Wolfe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0230369588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issue including neuroaesthetics, brain science and the law, neurofeminism, embodiment, race, memory and pain.
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science
Author: Sharon Crasnow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0429018215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science is a comprehensive resource for feminist thinking about and in the sciences. Its 33 chapters were written exclusively for this Handbook by a group of leading international philosophers as well as scholars in gender studies, women’s studies, psychology, economics, and political science. The chapters of the Handbook are organized into four main parts: I. Hidden Figures and Historical Critique II. Theoretical Frameworks III. Key Concepts and Issues IV. Feminist Philosophy of Science in Practice. The chapters in this extensive, fourth part examine the relevance of feminist philosophical thought for a range of scientific and professional disciplines, including biology and biomedical sciences; psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience; the social sciences; physics; and public policy. The Handbook gives a snapshot of the current state of feminist philosophy of science, allowing students and other newcomers to get up to speed quickly in the subfield and providing a handy reference for many different kinds of researchers.
