Sex and Gender Science: The World Writes on the Body.Show others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Sex Differences in Brain Function and Dysfunction / [ed] Claire Gibson, Liisa A. M. Galea, Springer, 2023, 1, Vol. 62, p. 3-25Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Sex and Gender Science seeks to better acknowledge that the body cannot be removed from the world it inhabits. We believe that to best answer any neuroscience question, the biological and the social need to be addressed through both objective means to learn, "how it is like" and subjective means to learn, "what it is like." We call bringing the biological and social together, "Situated Neuroscience" and the mixing of approaches to do so, Very Mixed Methods. Taken together, they constitute an approach to Sex and Gender Science. In this chapter, we describe neural phenomena for which considering sex and gender together produces a fuller knowledge base: sleep, pain, memory, and concussion. For these brain phenomena examples, studying only quantitative measures does not reveal the full impact of these lived experiences on the brain but studying only the qualitative would not reveal how the brain responds. We discuss how Sex and Gender Science allows us to begin to bring together biology and its social context and acknowledge where context can contribute to resolving ignorance to offer more expansive, complementary, and interrelating pictures of an intricate neuro-landscape.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2023, 1. Vol. 62, p. 3-25
Series
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, ISSN 1866-3370, E-ISSN 1866-3389 ; 62
Keywords [en]
Gender, Qualitative, Quantitative, Research methods, Science, Sex, Very mixed methods
National Category
Neurosciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203019DOI: 10.1007/7854_2022_304PubMedID: 35253110Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85149154721Libris ID: 0jbk0w86x9xmpl12ISBN: 9783031267222 (print)ISBN: 9783031267253 (print)ISBN: 9783031267239 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-203019DiVA, id: diva2:1854147
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