Alice Dreger
Posts by Alice Dreger
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Australia’s Passport to Gender Confusion
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On Naming Names
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Blotto, Not Beautiful, Medicine
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayReading Frank Bruni’s recent review in the New York Times of Provocateur, a chic bar in the meatpacking district, got me thinking about an argument I’d had recently with a family practice doctor. It’s true the argument had driven me to drink, but that wasn’t the essence of the connection betw...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Freedom’s Just Another Word for . . . Restriction?
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Dr. Oz Can’t Afford Me
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe first time the Dr. Oz show called me, I was simply too tired to deal. The story of Caster Semenya — the track athlete whose sex had been called into question — had hit the international news the week before, and since then, as an expert on atypical sex, I had done 25 media interviews....Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Dying for Some Standards: Broken Medical Systems as Revealed by a New FDA Warning
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayI’d like to say I was shocked when a colleague sent me the warning letter from Eli Lilly relaying results of a French study that indicate a 30 percent increased risk of death among children treated with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) in attempts to make them taller.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Time for the American Anthropological Association to Apologize
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayLast week, the journal Human Nature published via open access an article I wrote following a year of historical research. That article, “Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale,” traces how, in 2000 to 2002, leaders in the American Anthropological Assoc...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Tale of Tea with Jim the Third
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Pink Boys with Puppy Dog Tails
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn my e-mail in-box a few weeks ago, I received a polite message from a woman named Sarah Hoffman who was writing to ask why I was being such a gender conservative. Sarah didn’t quite put it that way, but that was the gist of her message, and given that I’m usually accused of being a gender ra...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Attenuated Thoughts
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayI was invited to join the Seattle Growth Attenuation and Ethics Working Group — collective author of the lead article in the current issue of the Hastings Center Report — but I begged off, claiming I had too many other things on my plate. True, but the bigger reason for avoiding the proj...Read the Post
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PRESS RELEASE: 04.01.10 Baseball season opener: athletes and ethicists look at fairness in sport
Read the Post(Garrison,NY) Just in time for baseball’s opening day, a series of articles in the Hastings Center Report asks what constitutes fairness in elite sports and what it takes to stop cheating. New issues, including the prospect of gene doping and questions about which athletes are really “female,...Read the PostChildren’s Bodies, Parents’ Choices
Read the PostMore children than ever are undergoing medical interventions for nonmedical reasons. As parents consent to an increasing variety of procedures, the ethical and legal debate grows louder. These essays visit the frontiers, asking what justifies changing a child’s physical nature and whether appea...Read the PostSports and the Search for Fairness
Read the PostCheating evolves constantly. Many athletes have been banned from the Olympics and other major events for taking banned substances. Gene doping is on the horizon. Questions have arisen about which athletes count as “female.” This set of essays in the Hastings Center Report asks: What does ...Read the PostSurgically Shaping Children
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Dozens of Bioethicists Air Views on SUPPORT Study Controversy
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayFor those following the SUPPORT Study controversy, the New England Journal of Medicine published this week a letter to the editor organized by Ruth Macklin, Alice Dreger, and me, and signed by 45 “physicians, bioethicists, and scholars in allied fields.” In contrast to an earlier letter p...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
X Marks Evolution: The Benefits of the “Indeterminate Sex” Passport Designator
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAustralia passed legislation in September giving transgender and intersex passport holders the option to identify themselves with an X for “indeterminate sex.” Navi Pillay, the United Nation’s high commissioner for human rights, called it “a victory for human rights.” Although other nations...Read the Post