"Measuring Phalluses, Separating Twins, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells Us about Today's Creeping Norms"

Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger
Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University College of Medicine

Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger is a Visiting Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on using history to improve the biomedical and social treatment of people born with socially-challenging bodies, including people with intersex, conjoinment, dwarfism, and cleft lip. She also works with affected adults, parents, and clinicians to make things better in the social and medical worlds. The question that motivates her in those projects is this: Why not change minds instead of bodies? Her published works include "Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex," "Intersex in the Age of Ethics," and "One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal."

Dr. Dreger's community lecture, "Measuring Phalluses, Separating Twins, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells Us about Today's Creeping Norms" will be in Hedges Conference Room of the Commons, at 11:10am on Thursday, October 4th. Additionally, Dr. Dreger will participate in lectures and class discussions in three courses during her visit to campus, Gender and Social Institutions, Introduction to Women's Studies, and Biopsychology.

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