JUST PUBLISHED: Rachel Adams on Access to Aid for the Disabled
Rachel Adams, director of the CSSD working group The Future of Disabilities Studies has published an article in Reuters on the problem of disabled individuals' unfettered access to assistance. Technological innovations are needed and appreciated, writes Adams, but bureaucracy and administrative inefficiency still stand in the way.
Read "What Google can learn from the wheelchair" here.
PUBLISHED: Debating a Testosterone "Sex Gap" in Science Magazine
Rebecca Jordan-Young, director of the CSSD working group on Science and Social Difference and Tow Associate Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, has published an important article in Science magazine on the controversy and science surrounding levels of testosterone in female athletes. Jordan-Young maintains that calls to exclude women with high testosterone are not rooted in science but ultimately in social and ethical claims concerning how we understand and frame human diversity.
Read the article here.