Word: wexlers
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...scientist, Nancy Wexler always thought she would want to know. Since watching her mother die in 1978 of Huntington's disease, the 41-year-old Columbia University neuropsychologist has wondered if she too will develop the untreatable and fatal brain disorder. She was all too aware that a child with a Huntington's parent has a 50% chance of contracting the inherited disease, usually between the ages of 35 and 45. Now the answer is hers for the asking, thanks to a complex chromosomal test Wexler herself helped devise...
Rebecca E. Wexler...
Rebecca E. Wexler ’05 is a joint-concentrator in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) and History and Science. Her unique experience in both science and WGS courses led to her Harvard-focused thesis...
Last year, Wexler noticed a serious difference in the treatment of gender in her women’s studies and anthropology classes. “They’re still teaching deterministic theories in biology and genetics that are critiqued in the women’s studies department,” Wexler said. Her thesis concluded that Harvard’s science departments treat certain differences in the performance of the sexes as innate (sound familiar?), while WGS classes focus on “feminist social biology,” Wexler said...
...said her thesis garnered additional attention after Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers made comments on innate differences between the genders. Wexler said, “Suddenly people knew what I was writing about, whereas before they gave me really weird looks...