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- Dussauge, Isabelle, 1978-
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Sex, Cash and Neuromodels of Desire
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Ingår i: BioSocieties. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1745-8552 .- 1745-8560. ; 10:4, s. 444-464
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the twenty-first century’s biological culture, pleasure and desire seem to be widely reconceptualized as processes of the brain. The neurosciences of sex and money are two fields of crucial interest in this cerebralization of desire. On the basis of a cross-reading of neuroimaging studies of sexuality and of neuroeconomics, I analyze the specific notions of desire/pleasure at work in the neuroimaging experiments. What is lost, and what is claimed to be found, in the neu- rosciences of desire for sex and cash? With particular attention to notions of rewards, I argue that transfers of metaphors from neuroeconomics naturalize economized notions of sexual desire. Moreover, I argue that neuroeconomics and the neuroscience of sex essentialize desire as the drive of our behavior, and that this, in turn, relates to the neurosciences’ re-invention of the social in the terms of a late capitalist society.
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- Dussauge, Isabelle, 1978-, et al.
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Valuography : Studying the making of values
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Ingår i: Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199689583 ; , s. 267-285
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- Kaiser, Anelis, et al.
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Feminist and Queer Repoliticizations of the Brain
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Ingår i: EspacesTemps.net. - 0339-3267 .- 1777-5477.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The historical relationship between biology and feminist politics is one of proximity and distance, tensions and contradictions. This is particularly obvious in the current golden age of neuroscience, when arguments supporting sexism, the inevitability of the sex/gender difference, the equalization of sexuality with heterosexuality and much more are reformulated based on the findings from brain research. In this paper, we examine the specific entanglements of brain science and feminism and identify three main directions which are “destabilizations”, “reconstructions”, and “recontextualizations”. These encounters provide a structure for our argument and reflect that the interactions between biology, feminist politics and political activism are contentious but sometimes also very productive. We close with some thoughts on the sociological configurations of the political economy of neuroscience for the trans*, intersex and feminist movement.
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Value practices in the life sciences and medicine
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for studying the making of values in society, which means taking seriously the work scientists, regulators, analysts, professionals, and publics regularly do to define what counts as proper conduct, what is economically valuable, and what is known and worth knowing. The volume proposes the word valuography to indicate an empirically oriented research program into the simultaneous making of seemingly separate values. Exploring various sites within life sciences and medicine, this volume features in-depth studies ranging from how zoos make animal value to how health care administrators attempts to engineer fair and efficient health care markets.
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