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Professor Daniel Wikler, Harvard University |
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 | Rebecca Jordan-Young
Bioethics - Medical ethics, Biology, Science and technology studies |
Rebecca Jordan-Young is Tow Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University (2000) and an A.B. in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College. Jordan-Young is the author of Brain Storm: The flaws in the science of sex differences (Harvard, 2010), and more than two dozen articles and book chapters at the intersection of science and social differences, especially gender, sexuality, and race. She is the Director of the Science and Social Difference Working Group at Columbia University, and in 2013-14 is a Visiting Professor at Radboud University, The Netherlands. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Cognitive Neurosciences Division of the School for International Advanced Studies (SISSA), in Trieste, Italy.
During her Fall 2013 stay at the Brocher Foundation, Jordan-Young is collaborating with Dr. Katrina Karkazis (Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics) on an analysis of new sporting policies that ban women athletes whose own bodies naturally produce high levels testosterone. Drs. Jordan-Young and Karkazis are writing an article that examines these policies from the perspective of athletes’ health, exploring how the sports approach to high testosterone compares with both standard medical care and accepted ethical principles. The team is also writing a book that uses these sporting policies as a lens for examining socially-important scientific conflicts (e.g., how scientists in different disciplines understand the relations among testosterone, sex, and athletic ability), as well as the role of science in authorizing widely circulating ideas about gender, race, nation, and fairness.
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