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Jacob Hale
Aug 12, 2007 rated it it was amazing
In this easily readable, engaging, and humanizing book, Alice Dreger powerfully calls into question the concepts of normal and abnormal. This builds on her earlier work on intersexuality. Without being anti-medicine, she calls for greater attention to the experiences of those who historically have been put under the surgeon's knife before they are able to consent (or dissent) -- as a matter of better medicine, better social policy, and better philosophy. ...more
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