![]() ![]() The second section provides her analysis of the controversy surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003), by sex researcher and psychologist J. Some surgeons called this "total urogenital mobilization" which is ".ripping out everything that didn't seem right to the doctor and rebuilding a girl's genitals from scratch using Frankenstein stitches." Based on her interactions with the intersex community as well as her own research, she advocated that genital surgery for intersex children be postponed until the individual is old enough to make an informed decision, in the absence of any evidence that the benefits of such surgery outweighed its already reported risks. The first part of Galileo's Middle Finger recounts Dreger's activism against surgical "correction" of intersex individuals' genitalia. ![]() ![]() These include the debates surrounding intersex genital surgery, autogynephilia, and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon's work. Dreger explores the relationship between science and social justice by discussing a number of scientific controversies. Galileo's Middle Finger is a 2015 book about the ethics of medical research by Alice Dreger, an American bioethicist and author. ![]()
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