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 EBOOKThis 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 EBOOKA compelling history of popular phrenology in the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of the nineteenth-century Tasman World.
Neurofeminism
Author: Robyn Bluhm
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-01-27
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0230368387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoing 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?
Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle
Author: Karin Bijsterveld
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 3031111087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory
Author: F. Vander Valk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1136344039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science
Author: Sharon Crasnow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0429018215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry
Author: Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
Publisher: Oxford Library of Psychology
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 0199933626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a variety of innovative methods and tools, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation on multi and mixed methods research.
Brainmedia
Author: Flora Lysen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1501378740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill we ever be able to see the brain at work? Could it be possible to observe thinking and feeling as if watching a live broadcast from within the human head? Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies: from exhibitions of giant illuminated brain models and staged projections of brainwave recordings to live televised brain broadcasts, brains hooked up to computers and experiments with “brain-to-brain” synchronization. Drawing on archival material, Brainmedia outlines a new history of “live brains,” arguing that practices of-and ideas about-mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. By combining accounts of scientists examining brains in laboratories with examples of public demonstrations and exhibitions of brain research, Brainmedia casts new light on popularization practices, placing them at the heart of scientific work.
Brain Theory
Author: C. Wolfe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0230369588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy 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.
