Feminist Anthropology Confronts Disengagement

Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science

There are a variety of ways that one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. Sandra Harding refers to this approach ...

Is Empathy Gendered and If So, Why? An Approach From Feminist Psychological Anthropology

Difference feminists have argued that women have special virtues. One such virtue would seem to be empathy, which has three main components: imaginative projection, awareness of the other’s emotions, and concern. Empathy is closely related to identification. Psychological research and the author’s own study of women’s and men’s talk about poverty and welfare use in the United States demonstrate...

The medical anthropology of political violence: a cultural and feminist agenda.

Francisella tularensis Confronts the Complement System

Francisella tularensis has developed a number of effective evasion strategies to counteract host immune defenses, not the least of which is its ability to interact with the complement system to its own advantage. Following exposure of the bacterium to fresh human serum, complement is activated and C3b and iC3b can be found covalently attached to the bacterial surface. However, the lipopolysacch...

Neutrino decay confronts the SNO data

We investigate the status of the neutrino decay solution to the solar neutrino problem in the context of the recent results from Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). We present the results of global χ2-analysis for both two and three generation cases with one of the mass states being allowed to decay and include the effect of both decay and mixing. We find that the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) regio...