These are shown in reverse chronological order:


  1. ‣Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women?) in the Womb? with Ellen K. Feder and Anne Tamar-Mattis (June 29, 2010)

  2. ‣Bad Vibrations, with Ellen K. Feder (June 16, 2010)

  3. ‣Prenatal Dex: Update and Omnibus Reply, with Ellen Feder and Hilde Lindemann (March 18, 2010)

  4. ‣Of Kinks, Crimes, and Kinds: The Paraphilias Proposal for the DSM-5 (February 19, 2010)

  5. ‣Fetal Cosmetology, with Hilde Lindemann and Ellen Feder, on fetal dexamethasone (February 8, 2010)

  6. ‣Intersex and Sports: Back to the Same Old Game (January 22, 2010)

  7. ‣Attention Shoppers: LBGT Rights Apparently Not Worth $6.67 to the American Psychological Association (December 29, 2009)

  8. ‣Does the NFL Need PETA? Is it time for PETA to tell the NFL that men are animals, too? (October 1, 2009)

  9. ‣Medicine Needs a Declaration of Independence from Cosmetic Procedures, on why “cosmetic medicine” is an anti-democratic contradiction in terms (July 6, 2009)

  10. ‣How and Why to Take “Gender Identity Disorder” out  of the DSM; a proposal for how to depathologize transgender while still supporting transgender people clinically (June 22, 2009)

  11. ‣Womb Gay, on Mormons, Proposition 8, and the best kept secret in the nature-nurture debate (December 4, 2008)

  12. ‣When Medicine Is the Opposition Party, on why professional societies should avoid partisan stances (November 7, 2008)

  13. ‣Footnote to a Footnote: On Roving Medicine, about how small groups of committed citizens change medicine (October 9, 2008)

  14. ‣The Vulnerable Researcher and the IRB, about why remaining “unprotected” by one’s Institutional Review Board helps one achieve what IRBs were supposed to (October 3, 2008)

  15. ‣Sex Is Good, about why sex research is worth funding with public money (August 21, 2008)

  16. ‣Olympic Problems with Sex Testing, on problems with instigating a “sex test” for Olympic athletes (July 31, 2008)

  17. ‣The AMA’s Apology: What’s the Benefit?, considers how the AMA (and similar organizations) might use historians and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission model to prevent harm (July 17, 2008)

  18. ‣Lavish Dwarf Entertainment, or why I hired a dwarf entertainer for my fortieth birthday.... (March 25, 2008)

  19. ‣Selective Parenting, with Joseph Stramondo, a response to Hilde Lindemann’s “Shotgun Weddings,” about the selective abortion of fetuses likely to have disabilities (October 23, 2007)

  20. ‣When HIPAA Hurts, about how clinicians’ understandable confusion over medical privacy laws can hurt patients (September 5, 2007)

  21. ‣Liberty and Solidarity: May We Choose Children for Sexual Orientation?, about how offering a choice for or against a theoretic “gay gene” in offspring might impact queer rights (June 19, 2007)

  22. ‣Products of Conception, about a woman who gave birth to stillborn conjoined twins she was never allowed to see, and how she is envisioning them today (April 9, 2007)

  23. ‣Ashley and the Dangerous Myth of the Selfless Parent, about the “Ashley Treatment” for children with severe disabilities, and why the real problem with what happened to Ashley is dishonesty about motives (January 18, 2007)

  24. ‣Really Changing Sex, about New York City’s plan to let people decide what gender they are, and why it doesn’t go far enough (November 8, 2006)

  25. ‣Explaining More, Doing Less, about why aggressively using evidence-based medicine and informed consent could lead to less healthcare waste (October 13, 2006)

  26. ‣So You’re a Scholar Who Wants to Make Things Happen, my Top Ten Tips for doing activism from an academic base (September 13, 2006)

  27. ‣The Federal Marriage Amendment and the New One Drop of Blood Rule, how intersex people are to the “same-sex” marriage prohibitions what interracial people were to anti-miscegenation laws (June 8, 2006)

  28. ‣The Secret Life of the Lunesta Butterfly, a spoof on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs (May 3, 2006)

  29. ‣Something Is Actually Happening: Are Bioethicists Doing the Right Stuff?, questioning the practice of bioethicists who come across a bioethical dilemma only to stare, think, speak, and move on (April 12, 2006)

  30. ‣Proof that I Like Penises, a cheeky anti-circumcision piece that has gotten me a whole lot a mail--mostly praise, I swear (March 10, 2006)

My posts at Bioethics Forum.