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  1. Sex Hormones and Processing of Facial Expressions of Emotion: A Systematic Literature Review.Flávia L. Osório, Juliana M. de Paula Cassis, João P. Machado de Sousa, Omero Poli-Neto & Rocio Martín-Santos - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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    Mathematics, sex hormones, and brain function.Helmuth Nyborg - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):206-207.
  3. Sex hormones and sexual desire.James Giles - 2008 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 38 (1):45–66.
    Some scholars attempt to explain sexual desire biologically by claiming that sex hormones play a necessary causal role in sexual desire. This can be claimed even if sexual desire is seen to be an experience. Yet the evidence for such biological essentialism is inadequate. With males the loss of sexual desire following hormonal changes can easily be explained in terms of social stigmas that are attached to the physiological situation. Concerning females, the relevance of sex hormones here is (...)
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    Sex Hormones Are Associated With Rumination and Interact With Emotion Regulation Strategy Choice to Predict Negative Affect in Women Following a Sad Mood Induction.Bronwyn M. Graham, Thomas F. Denson, Justine Barnett, Clare Calderwood & Jessica R. Grisham - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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    Solar Cycles, Light, Sex Hormones and the Life Cycles of Civilization: Toward Integrated Chronobiology.Roy Barzilai - 2019 - Science and Philosophy 7 (2):15-26.
    The emerging discipline of complexity science, applied to the social sciences, seeks to study the rise of human civilization as a part of a natural, evolving biological system that exploits energy resources to fuel its growth into a complex social system. In order to understand the whole system, the reductionist approach, typical to Western science, must be supplanted. The atomistic study of various scientific fields as separate mechanical parts of the system must be broadened, creating a more holistic view of (...)
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    Sex Hormones. Vol. IX, Biological Symposia. F. C. Koch, Philip E. Smith.Charles Kofoid - 1943 - Isis 34 (6):525-525.
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    Sexing hormones and materializing gender in Brazil.Emilia Sanabria - 2014 - Clio 37.
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    The testosterone paradox: how sex hormones shape the academic mind.Roy Barzilai - 2019 - Science and Philosophy 7 (1):59-70.
    In my work I argue that sexual differences in the brain seem to shape the ideological gulf between the respective social groups each side represents. And most significantly, it is the male sex hormone testosterone that is the primary hormone affecting our sexual evolution. Not only does testosterone fuel the passion for reproduction and play a critical role in the length of human lives, it is an integral component to the mechanism of human civilization—its triumphs and its tragedies. In order (...)
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  9. The Birth of Sex Hormones.Nelly Oudshoorn - 2000 - In Londa L. Schiebinger, Feminism and the body. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 87--117.
     
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    `A matter of embodied fact': Sex hormones and the history of bodies.Celia Roberts - 2002 - Feminist Theory 3 (1):7-26.
    Sex hormones today are seen as central to the production of biological sexual difference. This article examines the development of this scientific `fact', and asks how hormones came to be in this position. The article does not involve original historical research, however. Instead it uses existing histories of hormonal sexual difference to develop a theoretical argument about body histories. How can the history of scientific views of bodies be written and understood? What can these histories tell us about (...)
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    Sex Hormones an Behaviour. Ciba Founation Symposium 62. Pp. viii + 382. (Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam, 1979.) Price £21.00. [REVIEW]J. Herbert - 1980 - Journal of Biosocial Science 12 (3):367-369.
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    The effect of high and low female sex hormone concentration on the two-point threshold of pain and touch and upon tactile sensitivity.R. Y. Herren - 1933 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 16 (2):324.
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    Influences of menstrual cycle position and sex hormone levels on spontaneous intrusive recollections following emotional stimuli.Nikole K. Ferree, Rujvi Kamat & Larry Cahill - 2011 - Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1154-1162.
    Spontaneous intrusive recollections are known to follow emotional events in clinical and non-clinical populations. Previous work in our lab has found that women report more SIRs than men after exposure to emotional films, and that this effect is driven entirely by women in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. To replicate and extend this finding, participants viewed emotional films, provided saliva samples for sex hormone concentration analysis, and estimated SIR frequency following film viewing. Women in the luteal phase reported (...)
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    “The Proof Is in the Pudding”: How Mental Health Practitioners View the Power of “Sex Hormones” in the Process of Transition.Jaye Cee Whitehead, Kath Bassett, Leia Franchini & Michael Iacolucci - 2015 - Feminist Studies 41 (3):623-650.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Feminist Studies 41, no. 3. © 2015 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 623 Jaye Cee Whitehead, Kath Bassett, Leia Franchini, and Michael Iacolucci “The Proof Is in the Pudding”: How Mental Health Practitioners View the Power of “Sex Hormones” in the Process of Transition In the United States today, popular discourse touts the power of “sex hormones” and hormone receptors in the brain to chemically produce gender expressions (...)
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    Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones.Nelly Oudshoorn - 1994 - Routledge.
    First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    The Ethical Impermissibility of Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy in Gender-Dysphoric Minors.Phillip Berns - 2018 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92:321-332.
    Gender dysphoria in children has become a hot-button topic; however, clinical data still remain sparse on the effects of hormone therapy and transitional surgery on the physical and psychological well-being of those children. The American College of Pediatricians cites studies indicating that anywhere from 77 to 94 percent of boys and 73 to 88 percent of girls desist in GD; that is, following puberty the majority of children who experience GD will identify with their assigned biological sex. After reviewing the (...)
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    United We Stand: The Pharmaceutical Industry, Laboratory, and Clinic in the Development of Sex Hormones into Scientific Drugs, 1920-1940.Nelly Oudshoorn - 1993 - Science, Technology and Human Values 18 (1):5-24.
    Studies of drug development have described the role of clinical trials in the selection of drug profiles. This article presents a case study of the development of hormonal drugs in the 1920s and 1930s to illustrate that clinical trials have a more extensive role than is assumed. Clinical trials are instrumental in mediating the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the laboratory, and the clinic, resulting in a network of actors collectively creating medical knowledge, drugs, and markets for these drugs.
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    Ovaries to Estrogen: Sex Hormones and Chemical Femininity in the 20th Century. [REVIEW]Bernice L. Hausman - 1999 - Journal of Medical Humanities 20 (3):165-176.
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    Is the size of the human corpus callosum influenced by sex hormones?Elizabeth Hampson - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (3):331-332.
    Fitch & Denenberg have shown that manipulations of ovarian and testicular hormones early in development can influence the adult size of the corpus callosum in the rat. The human corpus callosum is highly variable in size and shape, but data are only now beginning to emerge on whether sex steroids influence callosal differentiation in humans. I describe recent data from our own laboratory and suggest avenues for future research.
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    GnRHa (‘Puberty Blockers’) and Cross Sex Hormones for Children and Adolescents: Informed Consent, Personhood and Freedom of Expression.David Pilgrim & Kirsty Entwistle - 2020 - The New Bioethics 26 (3):224-237.
    Ethical concerns have been raised about routine practice in paediatric gender clinics. We discuss informed consent and the risk of iatrogenesis in the prescribing of gonadotropin-releasing hormone...
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    Book Reviews : Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones, by Nelly Oudshoorn. London: Routledge, 1994, 195 pp. £40.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper. [REVIEW]Pat Spallone - 1996 - Science, Technology and Human Values 21 (3):362-366.
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    Book Reviews : Bricolaging (Women's) Bodies: Kathy Davis Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery New York and London: Routledge, 1995, 211 pp., ISBN 0-415-90632-6. Nelly Oudshoorn Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones New York and London: Routledge, 1994, 195 pp., ISBN 0-415-09191-8. José Van Dyck Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies. London: Macmillan, 1995, 238 pp., ISBN 0-333-62965-5. [REVIEW]Anna M. Lovell - 1996 - European Journal of Women's Studies 3 (3):319-323.
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    Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: Commentary on Taylor et al. (2000).David C. Geary & Mark V. Flinn - 2002 - Psychological Review 109 (4):745-750.
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  24. Reviews : Nelly Oudshoorn, Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones. London: Routledge, 1994. 182 pp. [REVIEW]Frances Griffiths - 1995 - History of the Human Sciences 8 (4):131-134.
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    Intelligence, hormones, sex, brain size, and biochemistry: It all needs to have equal causal standing before integration is possible.Helmuth Nyborg - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (2):164-165.
    Recent brain imaging points to differences in brain structure that relate to intelligence, but how do we model their causal relationship within a coherent framework that circumvents classic dualist traps? A bottom-level nonlinear, dynamic, multifactor, multiplicative, multidimensional, molecular (ND4M) trait-covariance time-space model may accomplish this better than traditional approaches.
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    Sex, ethnicity, and hormones.J. Philippe Rushton - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (1):194-194.
  27. Hormones and the reconfiguration of sexual identities in Brazil.Emilia Sanabria - 2013 - Clio 37:85-104.
    Les hormones sexuelles sont des objets hybrides et complexes à la frontière du sexe et du genre. Dès lors qu’elles sont synthétisées sous forme pharmaceutique, elles peuvent attribuer des caractéristiques sexuelles au corps de manière partiellement exogène à celui-ci. Il s’en suit que l’utilisation clinique qui en est faite est socialement réglementée. À travers une analyse de divers contextes d’utilisation des hormones observés à Bahia, au Brésil, cet article montre que le dualisme sexuel est le produit de pratiques (...)
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    Minding the body, sexing the brain: Hormonal truth and the post-feminist hermeneutics of adolescence.João Oliveira, Conceição Nogueira & Pedro Pinto - 2012 - Feminist Theory 13 (3):305-323.
    Drawing on feminist and queer epistemologies, this article is concerned with the post-feminist media’s construction of girls’ sexual subjecthood. Broadly defined as a biopolitical ideal, post-feminism is here related to a set of principles of the neoliberal art of government. It will be argued that these principles ethically sustain the exponential mainstreaming of a post-feminist hermeneutics of adolescence and its programme of governmentality. The article also links post-feminism to a particular methodology of subjectification, ultimately locating its hermeneutics of adolescence within (...)
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    Sex and Control: The Hormonal Body. [REVIEW]Jennifer Harding - 1996 - Body and Society 2 (1):99-111.
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    Sex differences in pain.Karen J. Berkley - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (3):371-380.
    Are there sex differences in pain? For experimentally delivered somatic stimuli, females have lower thresholds, greater ability to discriminate, higher pain ratings, and less tolerance of noxious stimuli than males. These differences, however, are small, exist only for certain forms of stimulation and are affected by many situational variables such as presence of disease, experimental setting, and even nutritive status. For endogenous pains, women report more multiple pains in more body regions than men. With no obvious underlying rationale, some painful (...)
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    Are Low Testosterone and Sex Differences in Immune Responses Causing Mass Hysteria during the Coronavirus Pandemic?Roy Barzilai - 2020 - Science and Philosophy 8 (2):145-149.
    By integrating the entire body of research in human sexual dynamics, immune responses, and sociocultural behavior, we can conclude that the mass hysteria our society is currently experiencing originates in our evolved psychological adaptations to pandemic conditions [i]. A lack of hormonal balance [ii], due to a collapse in testosterone levels, may cause a disproportionate immune response that leads to the destruction of our cherished sociopolitical institutions—the very institutions that are design to protect human liberty and prosperity. What is playing (...)
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    Both cell‐autonomous mechanisms and hormones contribute to sexual development in vertebrates and insects.Ashley Bear & Antónia Monteiro - 2013 - Bioessays 35 (8):725-732.
    The differentiation of male and female characteristics in vertebrates and insects has long been thought to proceed via different mechanisms. Traditionally, vertebrate sexual development was thought to occur in two phases: a primary and a secondary phase, the primary phase involving the differentiation of the gonads, and the secondary phase involving the differentiation of other sexual traits via the influence of sex hormones secreted by the gonads. In contrast, insect sexual development was thought to depend exclusively on cell‐autonomous expression (...)
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  33. Hormone Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: An Ethical Analysis.Brendan S. Abel - 2014 - Hastings Center Report 44 (s4):23-27.
    In the context of transgender health, most people are not comfortable with allowing a twelve‐year‐old child with gender dysphoria to elect to undergo gender reassignment surgery. The likelihood is too high that the child would be unable to fully comprehend the scope of a decision that carries significant, permanent consequences, particularly because the decision to surgically change gender is based upon a conception of gender that can fluctuate during adolescent years. Conversely, however, most people would not contend that this fluidity (...)
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    A possible role of sex steroid hormones in determining immune deficiency differences between the sexes.Marian C. Diamond - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (3):447-448.
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    13 How Sex and Stress Hormones Regulate the Structural and Functional Plasticity of the Hippocampus.Bruce S. Mcewen - 2004 - In Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Cognitive Neurosciences III. MIT Press. pp. 171.
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    Money, Sex, and Legitimacy at Chicago, circa 1892–1940: Lillie’s Center of Reproductive Biology.Adele E. Clarke - 1993 - Perspectives on Science 1 (3):367-415.
    Despite the controversial nature of studies of reproductive phenomena, a major center of reproductive biology emerged and coalesced in the Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago circa 1892–1940. Led by Frank R. Lillie, several small groups of researchers pioneered the study of sex determination and sex hormones, pursuing these via a Chicago approach to framing biological practice at both cellular and organismic levels. They worked in an interdisciplinary manner, however much in tandem, and drew strongly on local (...)
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    Sexual selection and sex differences in mathematical abilities.David C. Geary - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (2):229-247.
    The principles of sexual selection were used as an organizing framework for interpreting cross-national patterns of sex differences in mathematical abilities. Cross-national studies suggest that there are no sex differences in biologically primary mathematical abilities, that is, for those mathematical abilities that are found in all cultures as well as in nonhuman primates, and show moderate heritability estimates. Sex differences in several biologically secondary mathematical domains (i.e., those that emerge primarily in school) are found throughout the industrialized world. In particular, (...)
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    Sex differences in mathematical reasoning ability in intellectually talented preadolescents: Their nature, effects, and possible causes.Camilla Persson Benbow - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):169-183.
    Several hundred thousand intellectually talented 12-to 13-year-olds have been tested nationwide over the past 16 years with the mathematics and verbal sections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Although no sex differences in verbal ability have been found, there have been consistent sex differences favoring males in mathematical reasoning ability, as measured by the mathematics section of the SAT (SAT-M). These differences are most pronounced at the highest levels of mathematical reasoning, they are stable over time, and they are observed (...)
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    No Sex or Age Difference in Dead-Reckoning Ability among Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists.Benjamin C. Trumble, Steven J. C. Gaulin, Matt D. Dunbar, Hillard Kaplan & Michael Gurven - 2016 - Human Nature 27 (1):51-67.
    Sex differences in reproductive strategy and the sexual division of labor resulted in selection for and maintenance of sexual dimorphism across a wide range of characteristics, including body size, hormonal physiology, behavior, and perhaps spatial abilities. In laboratory tasks among undergraduates there is a general male advantage for navigational and mental-rotation tasks, whereas studies find female advantage for remembering item locations in complex arrays and the locations of plant foods. Adaptive explanations of sex differences in these spatial abilities have focused (...)
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    Facial Emotion Recognition and Emotional Memory From the Ovarian-Hormone Perspective: A Systematic Review.Dali Gamsakhurdashvili, Martin I. Antov & Ursula Stockhorst - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    BackgroundWe review original papers on ovarian-hormone status in two areas of emotional processing: facial emotion recognition and emotional memory. Ovarian-hormone status is operationalized by the levels of the steroid sex hormones 17β-estradiol and progesterone, fluctuating over the natural menstrual cycle and suppressed under oral contraceptive use. We extend previous reviews addressing single areas of emotional processing. Moreover, we systematically examine the role of stimulus features such as emotion type or stimulus valence and aim at elucidating factors that reconcile the (...)
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    Sex differences in interest in infants across the lifespan.Dario Maestripieri & Suzanne Pelka - 2002 - Human Nature 13 (3):327-344.
    This study investigated sex differences in interest in infants among children, adolescents, young adults, and older individuals. Interest in infants was assessed with responses to images depicting animal and human infants versus adults, and with verbal responses to questionnaires. Clear sex differences, irrespective of age, emerged in all visual and verbal tests, with females being more interested in infants than males. Male interest in infants remained fairly stable across the four age groups, whereas female interest in infants was highest in (...)
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    Types, norms, and normalisation: Hormone research and treatments in Italy, Argentina, and Brazil, c. 1900–50.Chiara Beccalossi - 2021 - History of the Human Sciences 34 (2):113-137.
    Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century hormone research promoted an understanding of the body and sexual desires in which variations in sex characteristics and non-reproductive sexual behaviours such as homosexuality were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. Biotypology, a new brand of medical science conceived and led by the Italian endocrinologist Nicola Pende, employed hormone research to study human types and hormone treatments to normalise (...)
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    Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice.Alex Thinius & Rose Trappes - 2024 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
    Sex is often thought of as a straightforwardly binary categorical variable. Yet there is considerable variation in would-be sex traits; from genitals and hormones to morphology, neurology and behaviour, there is rarely if ever a categorical binary. We introduce a strategy that researchers use to deal with this variation: Individualising Variation (IV). IV involves treating non-binary and gradual variation as idiosyncratic, as individual differences rather than sex-based differences. Using the contrasting cases of sex identification in field ornithology and the (...)
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    The Use of Cross-Sex Steroids in the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria.Paul W. Hruz - 2017 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 17 (4):661-671.
    Current clinical guidelines for the treatment of individuals who experience gender dysphoria include the administration of testosterone to women who desire to appear as men and estrogen to men who desire to appear as women. Despite the rapid and widespread adoption of this practice, strikingly little scientific evidence supports this treatment approach as a safe and effective medical intervention to prevent associated depression and suicide. Although low-quality, short-term studies have demonstrated a reduction of dysphoria, emerging evidence reveals significant bodily harm (...)
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    Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences.Rebecca M. Jordan-Young - 2010 - Harvard University Press.
    1. Sexual Brains and Body Politics 2. Hormones and Hardwiring 3. Making Sense of Brain Organization Studies 4. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Brain Organization 5. Working Backward from “Distinct‘ Groups 6. Masculine and Feminine Sexuality 7. Sexual Orienteering 8. Sex-Typed Interests 9. Taking Context Seriously 10. Trading Essence for Potential.
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    Genesis and development of a biomedical object: styles of thought, styles of work and the history of the sex steroids.Jean-Paul Gaudillière - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (3):525-543.
    Many decades after the publication of Genesis and development of a scientific fact, Fleck’s collective Denkstil remains a very important notion for analyzing the history of the biological and medical sciences. Following Fleck’s perspective this paper argues that the history of the sex hormones was critically shaped by our representation of the sexes, and our perceptions of the division of reproductive labor. Emerging at the boundary between physiological laboratories and consultation room, a molecular/endocrine style of thought stabilized during the (...)
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    A role for ovarian hormones in sexual differentiation of the brain.Roslyn Holly Fitch & Victor H. Denenberg - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (3):311-327.
    Historically, studies of the role of endogenous hormones in developmental differentiation of the sexes have suggested that mammalian sexual differentiation is mediated primarily by testicular androgens, and that exposure to androgens in early life leads to a male brain as defined by neuroanatomy and behavior. The female brain has been assumed to develop via a hormonal default mechanism, in the absence of androgen or other hormones. Ovarian hormones have significant effects on the development of a sexually dimorphic (...)
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    The Riddle of Sex: Biological Theories of Sexual Difference in the Early Twentieth-Century. [REVIEW]Nathan Q. Ha - 2011 - Journal of the History of Biology 44 (3):505 - 546.
    At the turn of the twentieth century, biologists such as Oscar Riddle, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Frank Lillie, and Richard Goldschmidt all puzzled over the question of sexual difference, the distinction between male and female. They all offered competing explanations for the biological cause of this difference, and engaged in a fierce debate over the primacy of their respective theories. Riddle propounded a metabolic theory of sex dating from the late-nineteenth century suggesting that metabolism lay at the heart of sexual difference. (...)
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    Ethical Problems in the Use of Hormonal Contraception.Jozef Laurinec - 2014 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 14 (3):491-524.
    The development of hormonal contraception introduced a new era in medical practice, marked by the suppression of female fertility by interventions in the hormonal system. The interventions are very grave, as sex hormones are of existential importance both to preserve human life and to preserve the human species. This article conducts an ethical evaluation of the use of hormonal contraception through two ethical theories: natural law theory and virtue ethics. Based on philosophical reflection, the author examines what effects hormonal (...)
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    Sex steroids, ANGELS and osteoporosis.Jonathan G. Moggs, Damian G. Deavall & George Orphanides - 2003 - Bioessays 25 (3):195-199.
    Osteoporosis is characterized by reduced bone density and strength. Bone mass peaks between age 30 and 40 and then declines. This can be accelerated by factors including menopause and insufficient dietary calcium. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is currently the standard treatment for osteoporosis. However, growing concern over potential side effects of HRT has driven a search for alternative therapies. A recent report1 reveals a potential alternative to HRT: a gender‐neutral synthetic steroid that increases bone mass and strength without affecting reproductive (...)
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