I always tailor talks to fit the needs of my audiences (prior hosts tell me I’m good at that), but lately I’ve been speaking mostly on:
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❖Anatomy and identity in a liberal democracy: what are and what ought to be the roles of science and medicine in negotiating bodily norms?
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❖When identity politics representatives and scientists clash (my Guggenheim book project).
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❖Sex and social justice, particularly cases involving children (“ambiguous” genitalia; “gender identity disorder”; pedophilia; and the treatment of healthy short children with abnormally high levels of growth hormone).
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❖What is medicine for? (This talk is a call to a nobel vision of medicine, emerging from a critique of the use of medicine to support social norms and of the commercialization of healthcare.)
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❖Representations of people with unusual bodies in the medical literature, in the media, and in self-styled exhibitions.
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❖The activist-academic: oxymoron, or moral imperative?
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