Alice Domurat Dreger
Alice Domurat Dreger
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:
❖What happens now to children born with socially challenging bodies (intersex, conjoinment, dwarfism, cleft lip, etc.), and what should happen to them
❖What is medicine for? (a critique of the use of medicine to support social norms and a critique of the commercialization of healthcare)
❖“Onion peeling,” i.e., doing private, pro-bono, client-centered medical histories (and the costs, benefits, and risks thereof)
❖Intersex and disorders of sex development (history, treatment, politics)
❖When identity politics and sex researchers clash (special focus on the Bailey book controversy)
❖Representations of people with unusual bodies in the medical literature, in the media, and in self-styled exhibitions
❖The activist-academic: oxymoron, or moral imperative?
❖Anatomy and identity in a liberal democracy: what are and what ought to be the roles of science and medicine?
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All material copyright Alice Domurat Dreger, 1996-2008.