Ole Jacob Madsen
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Ole Jacob Madsen is a clinical psychologist and a philosopher. He recently defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. Madsen is examining how the therapeutic culture is currently unfolding in Norwegian society, and he argues that these cultural changes present psychologists with new societal ethical dilemmas. Of particular interest is the validity of the traditional critique claiming that psychology causes ideological dissimulation and transforms societal and political issues into individual, psychological, and biological problems.
Books
Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology
This edited volume challenges popular notions of sex, gender and biology and features international, trans-disciplinary research. The book begins with an exploration of supposedly ‘natural’ sexual differences, then looks at research in evolutionary biology and examines topics such as gender stereotypes in humans. The first chapters explore important questions: What are the fundamental sex differences? How do genes and hormones influence an individual’s sex? Subsequent chapters concern topics including: sex stereotypes in the field of sexual conflict, how the focus on genes in evolutionary biology disregards other means of inheritance, and the development of Darwin's theory of sex differences. The last three chapters look at humans, discussing: an interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of sex differences in body height, biological versus social constructive perspectives on the gendering of voices and nature-culture arguments in the current political debate on paternity leave in Norway.