女性主义神经伦理学的兴起——从大脑性别差异研究谈起

The Rise of Feminist Neuroethics:Neuroscientific Research on Sex Differences in the Brain

在当代神经科学领域,大脑性别差异的研究一直备受关注。21世纪以来的十余年里,这一研究已经在悄然中催生出女性主义生命伦理学发展的一个新趋向——女性主义神经伦理学,它是一种以女性主义视角研究和解释神经科学发展所带来的一系列社会、伦理和法律问题的生命伦理学理论。关于大脑性别差异的研究是女性主义神经伦理学当前所关注的重要问题,一些学者试图以女性主义视角分析和解释当代神经科学对于大脑性别差异研究的各种新发现。

In contemporary neuroscience, a key concern is about the study of sex differences in the brain. Since the 21 st century, the study has been quietly giving rise to a new trend in feminist bioethics - feminist neuroethics, a new bioethical theory, which aims at re- searching and explaining from a feminist perspective a series of social, ethical and legal issues stemming from the development of neu-roscientific work. Currently, feminist neuroethics pays strong attention to the topic of sex differences in the brain. Some scholars at- tempt to analyze and interpret a variety of new neuroscientific discoveries concerning sex differences in the brain from a feminist per-spective.