Alice Dreger
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Alice Dreger giving 2015 address at the International Society for Intelligence Research
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| Born | Alice Domurat Dreger United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Bioethics, humanities |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, 1995[1] |
| Known for | Conjoined twinning, intersex or disorders of sex development, social justice |
| Notable awards | Fellowship recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
Alice Domurat Dreger is an American bioethicist, author, and former professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.[2]
Contents
Career
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 “Episode 205: Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don't Know” (includes interview with Alice Dreger), Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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 “Is anatomy destiny”, Alice Dreger, TED Talk |
She is widely known for her academic work and activism in support of individuals born with atypical sex characteristics (intersex or disorders of sex development) and individuals born as conjoined twins. Dreger has been a featured speaker at TED Talks.[3] She is also known for her support of J. Michael Bailey in the face of controversy[4] over his book The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)[5][6] and about which she first published in 2008.[7]
In 2015, Dreger published Galileo's Middle Finger[8], which covered her observations and experiences with controversies in academic medicine, especially those surrounding human sexuality.[9] The book received positive reviews from the Chicago Tribune,[10] The New York Times Sunday Book Review,[11] Chronicle of Higher Education,[5] Salon,[12] and activist and author Dan Savage,[13] but was removed from consideration for a Lambda Literary Award following controversy over its treatment of transgender issues. Dreger protested the removal in an open letter[14] to Lambda Literary Foundation. In a commentary Brynn Tannehill wrote that the book promoted the idea that trans people are "just self-hating homosexual men who believe they could have guilt-free sex if they were female and heterosexual men with an out-of-control fetish (autogynephilia)".[15] Since the book's publication, Dreger clarified[16] her articulation of the ideas relevant to trans women in her book.
Dreger resigned from Northwestern University in August, 2015, citing censorship issues.[17] The school had ordered her and other editors of Atrium, a bioethics journal, to take down an article about consensual oral sex between a nurse and patient.[18] Although the article was eventually reposted, the university established its own editorial committee to approve future issues of the journal.[19][20]
Selected bibliography
Books
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Journal articles
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- Dreger, Alice Domurat (2008). "The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age". Archives of Sexual Behavior 37 (3): 366–421. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1.
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References
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