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:

1. ❖Anatomy and identity in a liberal democracy: what are and what ought to be the roles of science and medicine in negotiating bodily norms?
   
   

2. ❖When identity politics representatives and scientists clash (my Guggenheim book project).
   
   

3. ❖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).
   
   

4. ❖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.)
   
   

5. ❖Representations of people with unusual bodies in the medical literature, in the media, and in self-styled exhibitions.
   
   

6. ❖The activist-academic: oxymoron, or moral imperative?
   

Relevant links:

1. ‣My c.v. in PDF form
   

2. ‣My speaking schedule
   

3. ‣Inviting me to speak
   

4. ‣Where I’ve spoken

What I’m speaking on lately