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Odile Fillod currently works as independant researcher. She does research in Science Studies, with a particular focus on the production, communication, and popularization/use of research findings on the biological correlates of gender. In relation with these research activities, she also publishes case studies on her blog https://allodoxia.odilefillod.fr/ (ISSN 2556-8221), and has created an information website on the clitoris (https://odilefillod.wixsite.com/clitoris).
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When is it ethically permissible for clinicians to surgically intervene into the genitals of a legal minor? We distinguish between voluntary and nonvoluntary procedures and focus on nonvoluntary procedures, specifically in prepubescent minors ("children"). We do not address procedures in adolescence or adulthood. With respect to children categorize...
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The false pretences of bioethics for the family
Irène Théry’s report, commissioned as a preparation for the draft law on Filiation, Origins and Parenthood and shelved in the spring of 2014, has attracted much commentary. Theologian Vincent Leclercq offers an ethical evaluation based on the four following criteria : the connection between fecundity...
L’idée selon laquelle les sciences biomédicales contemporaines attestent de l’existence de processus naturels de sexuation du psychisme humain est régulièrement exprimée dans l’espace public. Comment cela se fait-il ? Est-ce simplement parce que la recherche
scientifique a établi l’existence de tels processus et ne cesse d’avancer dans leur compréh...
During the first decade of the 2000s, a seemingly scientific theory supporting the notion that ‘maternal instinct’ is not a myth became widespread in French public space. According to this theory, the hormone oxytocin (OT) activates cerebral circuits that promote affective bonding, and since parturition and nipple stimulation cause a rise in OT lev...
The denunciation of “gender theory,” revived in the framework of the opposition to “marriage for all,” first emerged in the public debate in 2011. Backing a political mobilization against the so-called introduction of that theory in high school science textbooks, an office of the Roman Curia had then published in France a book intended to provide a...
