Neuroethics, gender and the response to difference

Neuroethics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 217-230

  Roy, Deboleena ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference; Epistemology; Feminist ethics; Feminist science studies; Feminist theory; Gender; Materiality; Neuroimaging; Ontology; Sex

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOETHICS; BIOMEDICINE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMINISM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; MEDICAL HUMANITIES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROETHICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84897061590     PISSN: 18745490     EISSN: 18745504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12152-011-9130-8     Document Type: Article

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