Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities & Bioethics
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History and Philosophy of Medicine and Anatomy
. Alice Dreger is Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities & Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. (Her promotion to full professor takes place on September 1, 2008.) She works on social justice issues in medicine, using the medical humanities (particularly history) to seek to improve the biomedical and social treatment of people born with socially-challenging anatomies, including those born with disorders of sexual development (sometimes called "intersex"), cranio-facial anomalies, conjoinment, and dwarfism. Dr. Dreger frequently speaks to and writes for medical and non-medical audiences, functions as an expert to the media and to policy makers, and advises fellow activists on how to do ethical, effective advocacy.
Dr. Dreger's first two books, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (now in its sixth printing with Harvard University Press, 1998) and the edited anthology Intersex in the Age of Ethics (University Publishing Group, 1999), both focused on the biomedical treatment of people born with atypical sex anatomies. Her latest book, One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal (Harvard University Press, 2004), has received positive reviews in the New Yorker, the New England Journal of Medicine, the London Review of Books, and Nature. It was named book of the month by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and received an honorary mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Dr. Dreger served as the project coordinator and editor-in-chief for the handbooks of the Consortium on the Management of Disorders of Sex Development. Her essays on science, medicine, and life have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. In April 2008, Dr. Dreger was selected for a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for her work on science and identity politics in the Internet age. She is currently working on a book on this topic.
More about Dr. Dreger's work is available on her personal website: alicedreger.com.
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a-dreger@northwestern.edu
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