Ethics

Neuroethics 1:1 Fine

By Neil Levy

Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist with a PhD from University College, London, and popular science writer. Her article is the first of the regular opinion or perspectives pieces we plan to publish in Neuroethics: shorter articles either putting a point of view or drawing attention to an interetsing scientific finding with neuroethical implications. Fine's paper is on what she calls 'neurosexism', the use of (often mangled) neuroscientific findings to support the claim that there are dramatic gender differences in cognition, which account (say) for the paucity of women in certain disciplines. PDF  HTML

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).