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Author: Helmuth Nyborg Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 0275946088 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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Nyborg sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning, and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. Neuroscience and the biological and biomedical sciences have advanced far beyond the limits of 19th century neuroanatomy, and we now know that chemical neurotransmitters and circulating hormones act to alter electrical brain activity and structure. At the same time heredity is now recognized to be not as omnipotent as in the Nature/Nurture debate of the last century. Nyborg examines these issues, and he shows that recent research in the molecular and brain sciences makes it possible to develop alternative research programs that apply empirical, quantitative, natural science principles and methods in order to unravel intricate problems like human nature and society. He concludes this work with a new approach--Physicology--the study of physico-chemical processes behind body, brain, behavior, and society. This book will be of great interest to behavioral scientists, and all concerned with the impact of physico-chemical processes on the changes in ourselves and our societies.
Author: Helmuth Nyborg Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 0275946088 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Nyborg sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning, and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. Neuroscience and the biological and biomedical sciences have advanced far beyond the limits of 19th century neuroanatomy, and we now know that chemical neurotransmitters and circulating hormones act to alter electrical brain activity and structure. At the same time heredity is now recognized to be not as omnipotent as in the Nature/Nurture debate of the last century. Nyborg examines these issues, and he shows that recent research in the molecular and brain sciences makes it possible to develop alternative research programs that apply empirical, quantitative, natural science principles and methods in order to unravel intricate problems like human nature and society. He concludes this work with a new approach--Physicology--the study of physico-chemical processes behind body, brain, behavior, and society. This book will be of great interest to behavioral scientists, and all concerned with the impact of physico-chemical processes on the changes in ourselves and our societies.
Author: Ann Oakley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351900919 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 144
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What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. To answer it she draws on the evidence of biology, anthropology, sociology and the study of animal behaviour to cut through popular myths and reach the underlying truth. She demonstrates conclusively that men and women are not two separate groups: rather each individual takes his or her place on a continuous scale. She shows how different societies define masculinity and femininity in different and even opposite ways, and discusses how far observable differences are based on biology and psychology and how far on cultural conditioning. Many books have discussed these vital issues. None, however, have drawn on such an impressively wide range of evidence or discussed it with such clarity and authority. Now newly reissued with a substantial introduction which highlights its continuing relevance, this work will continue to inform and shape dialogues around sex and gender for a new generation of scholars and students.
Author: Cordelia Fine Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393253880 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy, Testosterone Rex disproves this ingrained myth and calls for a more equal society based on both sexes’ full human potential.
Author: Nelly Oudshoorn Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134873433 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 210
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Why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Oudshoorn challenges the idea that the natural body exists any longer and evaluates the mixed blessings of the hormonal revolution.
Author: Celia Roberts Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521863377 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 248
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Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment of fertility, infertility and ageing. However, in contemporary society, hormones are both disturbed and disturbing; invading our environments and bodies through plastics, food and water, environmental estrogens and other chemicals, threatening irreversible, inter-generational bodily change. Using a wide range of sources, from physiology textbooks to popular parenting books and pharmaceutical advertisements, Celia Roberts analyses the multiple ways in which sex hormones have come to matter to us today. Bringing feminist theories of the body into dialogue with science and technology studies, she develops tools to address one of the most important questions facing feminism today: how is biological sex conceivable?
Author: Celia Roberts Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139466100 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages :
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Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment of fertility, infertility and ageing. However, in contemporary society, hormones are both disturbed and disturbing; invading our environments and bodies through plastics, food and water, environmental estrogens and other chemicals, threatening irreversible, inter-generational bodily change. Using a wide range of sources, from physiology textbooks to popular parenting books and pharmaceutical advertisements, Celia Roberts analyses the multiple ways in which sex hormones have come to matter to us today. Bringing feminist theories of the body into dialogue with science and technology studies, she develops tools to address one of the most important questions facing feminism today: how is biological sex conceivable?
Author: Roy Barzilai Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976096600 Category : Languages : en Pages : 314
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We are a world at war. Gender, race, and religious wars are intensifying. Political disputes over nationalism and globalism are threatening Western liberty with a return to the primitive tribalist mentality of collectivism. Sex Wars offers a new perspective on the historical, social, and ideological trends that drive human civilization. Roy expands on his last book, The Testosterone Hypothesis, to further explore how secret biological and psychological forces-even cosmic forces-drive the evolution of human cultures and the course of history. This research presented in this book reveals how sex hormones regulate the sexual organization of human societies. They compel mankind to form cultures based either on family values led by strong, independent men or a feminist, communist social structure. Testosterone levels motivate man to grow and seek independence and masculine virtues or else to bow down in subordination to social controls and big government paternalism. It is a dominance hormone that elevates mankind to command nature, but its decline can bring him down into a state of impotence and despair, even to self-destruction. Testosterone structures society in dominance hierarchies, driving groups to unite in common goals for territorial ambitions: to form nation states with secure borders, to establish law and order under the banner of individual rights and liberty, which the West has experienced since the Enlightenment. However, its collapse propels group conflict and tribal warfare for global conquest and submission under communist or fascist ideologies, such as the Dark Age religious doctrines of Islamic jihad, driven by sexual repression, depression, and aggression. Continuing on the path of the scientific revolution, led in physics by Newton and in biology by Darwin, equipped with the modern tools of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, we can now create a similar revolution in the social sciences and humanities to bring the next leap forward in human knowledge!
Author: Murray Freedman Publisher: ISBN: 9781735587004 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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It has been shown that people who have more sex are happier, and also that happier people actually have more sex. It is also known that hormones, and more importantly hormone insufficiency, is integrally related to both male and female sexuality. This book demonstrates the irrefutable connection between sex, hormones, and happiness, and it does so by presenting factual, evidence-based medical information presented utilizing real life scenarios involving several couples' experiences over time as they age. Two gynecologist/menopause experts present invaluable, up-to-date medical data in an easy to read format. The first part of the book deals with the younger couple's experience where relationship issues dominate (he wants more sex; she would like more intimacy). The latter part of the book addresses the older couple and how hormone therapy is not only indicated and safe but can be extremely beneficial. The impact of hormone insufficiency on both male and female sexuality is explained, and the reader will come to realize sex does not necessarily belong only to the young.The book addresses the three primary issues associated with the decline in sexual activity that occurs over time (age, relationship issues and hormones), and the 'story board' format allows the reader toidentify personally with the characters involved. The delightfully entertaining presentation makes learning the facts both easy and understandable. After you read this book, you will come to understandwhy Drs. Freedman and Gaudry are America's most enthusiastic vagina advocates.
Author: Helmuth Nyborg
Author: Helmuth Nyborg
Author: Ann Oakley
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Author: Cordelia Fine
Author: Nelly Oudshoorn
Author: Celia Roberts
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Author: Celia Roberts
Author: Roy Barzilai
Author: Murray Freedman