Sex and Gender in Biomedicine: Theories, Methodologies, Results

131 Pages·2010·1.658 MB·English

by  Klinge, Ineke;Wiesemann, Claudia(Herausgeber)

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ISBN: 978-3-941875-26-5 Universitätsverlag Göttingen Universitätsverlag Göttingen

Ineke Klinge and Claudia Wiesemann (Eds.)
Sex and Gender in Biomedicine

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Ineke Klinge and
Claudia Wiesemann (Eds.)

Sex and Gender
in Biomedicine

Theories, Methodologies, Results

Universitätsverlag Göttingen
2010
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Table of contents

Preface
Barbara Hartung ..................................................................................................................... 7
Preface
Cornelius Frömmel ................................................................................................................... 9
Editorial
Ineke Klinge & Claudia Wiesemann .................................................................................... 11
Sex and gender in biomedicine: promises for women and men
Ineke Klinge ........................................................................................................................... 15
Gender issues in living organ donation: medical, social, and ethical aspects
Silke Schicktanz, Mark Schweda & Sabine Wöhlke ............................................................ 33
Sex, gender, and the brain – biological determinism versus socio-cultural
constructivism
Sigrid Schmitz ....................................................................................................................... 57
The brain between sex and gender – women and men from a neuroscientific
perspective
Kirsten Jordan ........................................................................................................................ 79
Sex and gender in addiction research and therapy
Verena Metz & Gabriele Fischer........................................................................................ 101

Contributors .................................................................................................................... 125

Preface

Dr. Barbara Hartung
Ministry of Sciences and Culture
Lower Saxony, Germany

The German federal state of Lower Saxony has for a long time been supporting
efforts to integrate gender into academic research. Following the recommendations
of Reports from Research on Women: outlook for Sciences, Technology, and Medicine (1997), a
Lower Saxonian research network for women and gender research was established
and funded with the total sum of 7.5 Mio. DM over a time period of five years. In
the year 2001, the Maria-Goeppert-Mayer-Programme for International Women
and Gender Research was started: about 400,000 € are provided annually to award
visiting professorships or lectureships to high-ranking foreign scientists, but also to
junior scientists. The target of the programme is to integrate the most recent find-
ings of international research projects into research and teaching in Lower Saxony,
Germany. So far, 113 professorships and 30 lectureships were awarded, half of
which were assigned to foreign scientists. In 2008/2009, Dr. Ineke Klinge, Maas-
tricht University, held a Maria-Goeppert-Mayer visiting professorship in Sex and
Gender in Biomedicine at Göttingen University, Germany. I appreciate the fact that
results and contributions of an accompanying lecture series organised by Prof.
Claudia Wiesemann, Prof. Silke Schicktanz and Dr. Inken Köhler from Göttingen
University Medicine within the frame of this professorship have been gathered in
the volume at hand and thus made available to a broader public. This is an impor-
tant contribution to support and promote further discussions on the integration of
gender aspects in biomedicine.