title: [Integrated perspectives on gender].
abstract: Differences in biology have no meaning in themselves. Much medical research has either rendered invisible or exaggerated gender differences in biology, partly due to insufficient distinction between absolute and graded differences, partly because data have been interpreted from unreflected cultural assumptions about gender. Many medical findings which were originally interpreted as rooted in biology have later been recognized as socially and culturally conditioned. A new integrated understanding of the mutual relation between biology, culture and experience is becoming more common today among scientists as well as gender researchers.
authors.affiliation: Universitetet i Oslo, Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning. h.b.nielsen@skk.uio.no
authors.forename: Harriet Bjerrum
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: Jørgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lorentzen
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology; D012723:Sex; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012737:Sex Factors; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology