Entries by Constance Cummings
McGill’s Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives Initiative: Integrating Social Context into Neuroscience Research
By Constance A. Cummings, FPR Project Director In a recent collection of essays, anthropologist Gisli Palsson suggested we’re on the verge of a “post-disciplinary” era of academic collaboration (Palsson, 2015). Signs were very much in evidence at an inaugural workshop exploring ways to integrate social context in neuroscience research at McGill University on June 6–7, […]
FPR Sex/Gender Conference Summary: Part 3 – What Counts as Adequate Function?
The sex/gender conference succeeded in bringing together people “with different ideas and skills, different ways of thinking, that are actually transforming the field,” observed Carol Worthman, chair of Part 3 (“What’s at Stake?”). The earlier sessions (see Parts 1 and 2) provided us with a better sense of the complexities of sex/gender; we also learned […]