Research directions
Main research approaches and areas
Social studies of science, technology, medicine, and health, or STS (in the broad sense of the term)
The social and cultural history of science from a gender perspective
Historical and feminist epistemologies
Gender, bodies and sexualities studies
Feminist and queer theories, gay and lesbian studies and other "studies": cultural, race, decolonial, trans, intersex, etc. studies
Lab and medical ethnographies
Participant observation and "observant participation"
Research topics
Developmental (biological and psychological) sciences
Sciences of human diversity and population genetics
Brain sciences and neuroscience (which emerged strictly speaking in the 1960s)
European sexologies and sex research born in the United States; clinically oriented branch of sex research: psycho-hormonal sexology or "genderology" founded in the 1950s on psychosexual studies of hermaphroditism and then transsexualism (as they were called at the time)
Genital modifications in medical and non-medical contexts ("female genital mutilation", intersex surgery, trans surgery, so-called clitoris reconstruction surgery for women concerned with genital cutting, cosmetic genital surgery, ritual or medical circumcision, etc.)
Genre, (neuro-)sciences, medicine, and health in/from the Global South
