Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
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Katrina Karkazis is a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University. Her first book, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke University Press, 2008), looks at the question of how to treat infants whose bodies do not fit neatly into our scientific categories of “male” or “female,” from the perspective of doctors, parents, and adults w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0002-9297
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.04.022