Includes all the material from the special issue of the Journal of Clinical Ethics that I edited, and much more. Makes a great class reader, so I’m told. And you get to see the editor naked on the front cover. (Long story that.)

From the jacket:

The range of ethical issues that arise in regard to the treatment of intersex infants, children, and adults is richly representative of clinical healthcare ethics generally. By incorporating the perspective of patients and their stories in its account, however, Intersex in the Age of Ethics does more than introduce the question of healthcare ethics in microcosm. It also leads the reader to examine the effect of ethical reflection on the lives of patients. Unlike many collections of essays, this one hangs together very well both for reading and for teaching. Intersex in the Age of Ethics is a model, in both senses of the word, of what thoughtful healthcare ethics reflection can accomplish. It embodies a conceptual model of ethical reflection that leads the reader to pose the right questions and to respond to them with patients’ lives in mind. And it is a model in the evaluative sense—excellent, admirable, and deserving of imitation. -- David T. Ozar, Ph.D., Loyola University

New England Journal of Medicine:

“Although this book is full of diverse voices and styles of writing, it is a tightly focused collection with a consistent point of view. Each of the 21 chapters contributes to the development of the overall argument, and each chapter also has its own story to tell. These stories are variously academic and personal, powerful and unassuming, moving and disturbing, sad and joyful. However, all contributions are informative and compelling. No reader will put down this book unchanged.” - Yvonne Marshall, Ph.D.

Bioethics:

“This book can be a valuable resource to parents, bioethicists, philosophers, clinicians and health care providers from every tradition, as it is written by people from every tradition. It provides an opportunity for the layperson to become educated, involved, and politically active, in an easy to read format. Those of us who are involved in the education of this topic are grateful for Dreger’s effort.” - Brooke Sanders Purves

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