Dept of Biology, Brown University, Meeting Street Box G, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jun;74(11):1684-92. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.051. Epub 2011 Jul 5.
The most common paradigm used to analyze health differences between men and women, is to divide the body from the social environment. In such a model, the bodily contribution and the social contribution add up to 100%. A few health science researchers offer more sophisticated approaches. None, however, offer an intensive study of the first several years of life in order to offer a model which integrates biology and culture in a fashion that demonstrates the productive processes by which gender itself emerges. In this article, we identify the earliest known sex-related biological and behavioral differences in young infants, toddlers and their parents and indicate how these might relate to health and disease. We frame these differences using unifying concepts from the study of neuroplasticity and dynamic systems theory.
最常用于分析男女健康差异的范式是将身体与社会环境分开。在这种模式中，身体的贡献和社会的贡献加起来是 100%。一些健康科学研究人员提供了更复杂的方法。然而，没有人对生命的最初几年进行深入研究，以提供一种将生物学和文化结合起来的模式，展示性别本身是如何产生的。在本文中，我们确定了在幼儿及其父母中最早发现的与性别相关的生物学和行为差异，并指出了这些差异如何与健康和疾病有关。我们使用神经可塑性和动态系统理论的统一概念来构建这些差异。
