Conference: Biological Normalcy: A Workshop Investigating Relationships Between Statistical Norms and the Normative: Santa Fe, NM, October 2019

会议：生物常态：调查统计规范与规范之间关系的研讨会：新墨西哥州圣达菲，2019 年 10 月

基本信息

批准号：
1901551
负责人：
Andrea Wiley
金额：
$ 0.74万
依托单位：
Indiana University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-10-01 至 2020-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901551&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Conference Biological Normalcy Workshop Investigating

项目摘要

This award provides support for a multi-day workshop to be hosted by the School for Advanced Research in Santa, FE New Mexico in October 2019. Participants in the workshop will develop the concept of "biological normalcy" by using a series of case studies to understand the relationships between statistical norms for, and normative social views of, biological variation within human populations, and the broader implications of these relationships. By bringing to light the normative (and often ethno-biocentric) language used to describe human biological variation, the goal of the workshop is to expose and reduce bias in discourse about biological variation and develop new ways of describing it. The language used to describe human variation has direct relevance to clinical and public health, where treatments and policies may be aimed at "normalizing" biological measures that are viewed as "non-normal," deviant, or pathological. To maximize the impact of this workshop, time during the final phase will be dedicated to developing dissemination plans for each participant and the group, with an emphasis on academic, applied, and public outreach that will emphasize communication and education as well as public engagement. Biological normalcy serves as a conceptual framework to better understand and describe human biological variation from a biocultural perspective. The outcomes of this workshop will advance biocultural research in anthropology by elaborating this framework, which emphasizes the bidirectional relationships between biology and culture. Over the past twenty-five years biocultural anthropologists have learned much about how social or cultural factors influence biology, but relatively little about how the distribution of biological traits in a population influence social norms. Using the biological normalcy framework, the two meanings of normal are untangled, revealing the relationships between the two, and the ways that ethno-biocentric views may exist in discourse about human biological variation are exposed. The workshop is structured as a three day intensive session, with each day having a mix of individual presentations, group discussion, and small group research. Participants will focus on the causes and consequences of relationships between statistical norms and normative views, with each providing material on specific biological or biobehavioral traits (such as growth, body proportions, sleep, diet, among others), and investigate the ways that ethno-biocentric views may exist in discourse about these traits and their variability within and across populations. Funds support travel costs for a diverse group of participants in various career stages to and from the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项为2019年10月在新墨西哥州圣塔（FE New Mexico）举办的多天研讨会提供了支持。研讨会的参与者将通过使用一系列案例研究来制定“生物正常”的概念，以了解人类群体内部和广泛关系中的统计社会观点之间的统计规范和规范性社交观点之间的关系。通过揭示用于描述人类生物学变异的规范性（通常是民族基因的）语言，研讨会的目的是揭露和减少有关生物学变异的论述中的偏见，并发展出描述其新方法。用于描述人类变异的语言与临床和公共卫生具有直接相关性，在这种语言中，治疗和政策可能旨在“使”被视为“非正态”，变异或病理学的生物学措施“正常化”。为了最大程度地提高该研讨会的影响，最后阶段的时间将致力于为每个参与者和小组制定分发计划，并着重于学术，应用和公众推广，这将强调沟通和教育以及公众参与。生物常态是从生物文化的角度更好地理解和描述人类生物学变异的概念框架。该研讨会的结果将通过阐述该框架来推动人类学的生物文化研究，这强调了生物学与文化之间的双向关系。在过去的二十五年中，生物文化人类学家已经了解了很多有关社会或文化因素如何影响生物学的知识，但相对较少，关于生物特征在人群中的分布如何影响社会规范。使用生物正常框架，正常的两种含义没有弄清，揭示了两者之间的关系，并且在暴露于人类生物学变异的讨论中可能存在民族生物以中心的观点。该研讨会的结构是为期三天的密集课程，每天都有各种演讲，小组讨论和小组研究的混合。参与者将重点关注统计规范与规范观点之间关系的原因和后果，每个人都提供有关特定生物学或生物行为特征的材料（例如，生长，身体比例，睡眠，睡眠，饮食等），并调查了民族基本观点在这些特征及其内部和跨种群中的探讨中可能存在的方式。资金支持与圣达菲学院高级研究学院的各个职业阶段的各种参与者的旅行成本，NM。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。