Alice Dreger (Knihy)

Alice Dreger Knihy

Alice Dreger sa venuje sociálnej spravodlivosti v medicíne a vede prostredníctvom výskumu, písania, prednášok a obhajoby. Svoje profesionálne úsilie smeruje k využívaniu histórie na zlepšenie lekárskeho a sociálneho zaobchádzania s osobami, ktoré sa narodili s telami, ktoré spochybňujú normy. Kľúčovou otázkou, ktorá motivuje mnohé jej projekty, je: „Prečo nemeniť mysle namiesto tiel?“ Jej práca sa zameriava na ľudí s atypickou sexualitou, zrastenými dvojčatami, trpaslíctvom a rázštepom pery, s cieľom presadzovať inkluzívnejšie a humánnejšie prístupy.

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice

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"Galileo's Middle Finger is historian Alice Dreger's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. Dreger's chronicle begins with her own research into the treatment of people born intersex (once called hermaphrodites). Realization of the shocking surgical and ethical abuses conducted in the name of "normalizing" intersex children's gender identities moved Dreger to become an internationally recognized patient rights activist. But even as the intersex rights movement succeeded, Dreger began to realize how some fellow activists were using lies and personal attacks to silence scientisis whose data revealed uncomfortable truths about humans. In researching one case, Dreger suddenly became a target of just these kinds of attacks. Troubled, she decided to try to understand more -- to travel the country and seek a global view of the nature and costs of these damaging battles. Galileo's Middle Finger describes Dreger's long and harrowing journeys between the two camps for which she felt equal empathy: social justice activists determined to win and researchers determined to put hard truths before comfort. What emerges is a lesson about the intertwining of justice and truth-- and about the importance of responsible scholars and journalists to our fragile democracy." --