There is a provocative article in the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience today which asks: "Why should we pay special attention to the neuroscience of sex differences? " Authors lay out a plethora of directions in which such research could go, posing such as questions as "How ought we disseminate this information into a sensitive social environment that has a history of bias and discrimination against women? What are the implications of this work for our understandings of what makes us women and men? How should this research be applied in educational, medical, and legal contexts, if at all?... In considering the neuroscience of sex differences, we confront a fundamental issue: how do science and society understand female-male differences, or rather, women and men?"
A little different approach than the previous post we had on Gender: Love it or Kill it?.
The full article can be accessed here, subscription required.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Heh, damnit - you beat me to it. I was going to wait until I got the issue posted on the bioethics.net website.
For readers who want to read the issue, it will be available for free on the bioethics.net website in a day or two - I'll post a link/notification here when that happens.
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