Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/ Gender) Neuroscience
Title | Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/ Gender) Neuroscience PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Fitsch |
Publisher | Frontiers Media SA |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2022-02-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 2889742865 |
Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain
Title | Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen Kennedy |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1003824153 |
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
Title | Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Roginski |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2023-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1316519449 |
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
Title | Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences PDF eBook |
Author | F. Callard |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2015-12-30 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1137407964 |
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
Title | Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Bijsterveld |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2023-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3031111087 |
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
Title | Neurofeminism PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Bluhm |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2012-01-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230368387 |
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?
Critical Neuroscience
Title | Critical Neuroscience PDF eBook |
Author | Suparna Choudhury |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2011-09-07 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1444343335 |
Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of 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. This text’s original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience while furthering the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Critical Neuroscience transcends traditional skepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about science.