Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice

Choudhury, Subhashree; Nagel, Saskia K.; Slaby, Jan

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“…Avec l'explosion contemporaine des neurosciences, le cerveau est devenu la métaphore de référence pour décrire l'être humain dans son individualité, sa subjectivité, ses actions, sa vie privée et sociale (Illes et Racine 2005;Illes et autres 2006;Ortega et Vidal 2007;Choudhury, Nagel et Slaby 2009;Racine et autres 2010). Le « neurosexisme » contemporain avec ses allures scientifiques fait recette dans les milieux conservateurs pour justifier les préjugés et les inégalités entre les sexes (Fine 2010).…”

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Le genre à l’épreuve des neurosciences

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2014

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Une avancée majeure des recherches en neurosciences est d’avoir révélé les extraordinaires capacités de « plasticité » du cerveau qui se façonne en fonction de l’histoire vécue. Au cours des apprentissages et des expériences, la structure intime du cerveau se modifie sans cesse avec la fabrication de nouvelles connexions entre les neurones. Rien n’est à jamais figé dans le cerveau, quels que soient les âges de la vie. Le concept de plasticité cérébrale apporte un éclairage neurobiologique fondamental sur les processus de construction sociale et culturelle de nos identités sexuées. Il vient ainsi conforter et enrichir les recherches en sciences humaines sur le genre.

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Le genre à l’épreuve des neurosciences

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2014

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“…The recent years have been marked by attempts to define productive critical engagements with neuroscience. Especially two attempts have received quite some attention in neuroethical contexts: critical neuroscience [3] launched in the journal BioSocieties, and neuroskepticism [4] made visible, in print, in AJOB Neuroscience.…”

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Neuroscience and Sex/Gender

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Kaiser

2012

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This special issue publishes interdisciplinary scholarship which aims to map and re-imagine the relations between neuroscience and gender studies. neuroGenderings: The NetworkThe authors of the present special issue were all participants in the workshop neuroGenderings: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain (Uppsala, 2010). Then coorganizers, now guest editors, we work in gender studies, neuroscience, and science and technology studies. In 2010, we did not know for a fact that the neuroGenderings initiative would grow and develop into an international network and conference series. Now we know.In neuroGenderings, a transdisciplinary and international group of researchers from the neurosciences, the humanities and science studies working on and in the neuroscience of gender convened to discuss the broad theme of sex/gender and the brain. As this specific interdisciplinary field of research usually hosts very different epistemological approaches, a common knowledge of neuroscience and gender studies was a prerequisite for the group's theoretical and methodological exchange. The participants lively debated crucial issues, from current research on sex/gender difference in neuropsychology, through the implications of notions of sex/gender, gender identity and sexuality used in neuroscientific experimentation, to the social workings of a sexed/gendered brain.More precisely, the neuroGenderings workshop achieved an impressive first mapping of the research on sex/gender in neurosciences and the methodological frames used in those sciences. We discussed, for instance, the role assigned to "sexed" regions of the brain, by analyzing the relevance of the notion of sexual dimorphism, itself a system of significance that is always and solely framed by neuro-logical sexual dichotomy. Further, we elaborated on what kind of sex/gender facts, results, and understandings of the brain dominate in neurosciences and how neuroscientific facts about sex/ gender are produced. We recapitulated how neuro-sex/ gender-facts are dependent on our contemporary historical and political context and we discussed some of the ethical and political consequences of neuroscientific knowledge production about sex/gender and sexuality. Not least, neuroGenderings explored the workings of neurosexism without dismissing neuroscience altogether. Neurosexism is a term launched by psychologist Cordelia Fine [1], and it stands for the (mis)use of neuroscientific facts and factoids [2] to assert that women and men are categorically Neuroethics (2012) 5:211-215

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“…through different theories of identification, empathy and the theory of other minds, e.g. (Leys, 1993) (Choudhury et al, 2009) to ongoing debates within the already multidisciplinary resting state neuroscientific research field. * * * * * It is becoming increasingly common to argue that neuroscience is reshaping models of subjectivity and personhood in the West.…”

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