All original material © Alice Domurat Dreger, 1996-2009.

Primary authorship:


Alice D. Dreger and Geoffrey Miller, “Conjoined Twins,” in Pediatric Bioethics, ed. Geoffrey Miller (Cambridge University Press, in press).


Alice D. Dreger and David E. Sandberg, “Disorders of Sex Development,”  in Pediatric Bioethics, ed. Geoffrey Miller (Cambridge University Press, in press).


Alice D. Dreger and April Herndon, Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement: Feminist Theory in Action, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 15, no. 2 (March 2009).


Alice Dreger, Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood: Inconclusive Advice to Parents, Hastings Center Report, vol. 39, no. 1 (January-February, 2009), pp. 26-29.


Alice D. Dreger, The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 37, no. 3 (June 2008), pp. 366-421. (See also my response to the commentaries on my article in the same issue, pp. 503-510.)


Alice Domurat Dreger, What to Expect When You Have the Child You Weren’t Expecting, in Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality, ed. by Erik Parens (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 253-266.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Intersex and Human Rights: The Long View, in Ethics and Intersex, ed. by Sharon Sytsma (Springer, 2006): 73-86.


Alice Dreger, Cheryl Chase, Aron Sousa, Joel Frader, and Philip Gruppuso, Changing the Nomenclature/Taxonomy for Intersex: A Scientific and Clinical Rationale, in Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2005; 18: 729-733.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Cultural History and Social Activism: Scholarship, Identities, and the Intersex Rights Movement

in Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, edited by Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), pp. 390-409.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Seeing Yourself, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Spring 2004, vol. 47, no. 2).


Alice Dreger and Bruce Wilson, commentary on Culture Clash Involving Intersex, The Hastings Center Report, vol. 33, no. 4 (July/August 2003), pp. 12-14.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Jarring Bodies:  Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies, in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 43, no. 2 (Winter 2000), pp. 161-172.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Metaphors of Morality in the Human Genome Project, in Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project, edited by Philip Sloan (U. Notre Dame Press, 2000), pp. 155-184.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Anatomy and Identity, or the Politics of Being Unusual, in The Meaning of Being Human, edited by Michelle A. Stoneburner and Billy Catchings (University of Indianapolis Press, 1999), pp.169-189.


Alice Dreger, A History of Intersexuality, from the Age of Gonads to the Age of Consent, Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 9, no. 4 (Winter 1998), pp. 345-355.


Alice Domurat Dreger, "Ambiguous Sex"--or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Problems in the Treatment of Intersexuality, in The Hastings Center Report, vol. 28, no. 3 (May/June 1998), pp. 24-35.


Alice Domurat Dreger, The Limits of Individuality: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Lives and Medical Treatment of Conjoined Twins, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 29c, no. 1 (March 1998), pp. 1-29.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Hermaphrodites in Love: The Truth of the Gonads, in Science and Homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario (Routledge, 1997), pp. 46-66.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Doubtful Sex: Cases and Concepts of Hermaphroditism in France and Britain, 1868-1915 (Ph.D. Dissertation in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1995).


Alice Domurat Dreger, Doubtful Sex: The Fate of the Hermaphrodite in Victorian Medicine, in Victorian Studies, vol. 38, no. 3 (Spring 1995), pp. 335-369.


Alice Domurat Dreger, Nature is One Whole: Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s Traité de Tératologie (Master’s Thesis in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1993).



Non-primary authorship:


Joel Frader, MD, MA; Priscilla Alderson, PhD; Adrienne Asch, PhD; Cassandra Aspinall, MSW, ACSW; Dena Davis, JD, PhD; Alice Dreger, PhD; James Edwards, PhD; Ellen K. Feder, PhD; Arthur Frank, PhD; Lisa Abelow Hedley, JD; Eva Kittay, PhD; Jeffrey Marsh, MD; Paul Steven Miller, LLB; Wendy Mouradian, MD; Hilde Nelson, PhD; Erik Parens, PhD., Health Care Professionals and Intersex Conditions, in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (a subsidiary journal of JAMA) v. 158, n. 5 (May 2004): 426-428.



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