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
