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MH&B Special Topics Lectures

These lectures address topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

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Sex and Social Justice: Three Cases Involving Children

 

Alice Dreger, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities & Bioethics

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

This talk looks at three sex issues that impact children (and also clinicians)intersex, "gender identity disorder" in childhood, and pedophiliato consider how science, technology, and identity-based activism are shaping the social justice issues implicated therein.

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