MarinIJ.com – Paul Liberatore
Marin anthropologist and author Katrina Karkazis began researching her new book, “Fixing Sex,” a decade ago, when she was working on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
Now senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, Karkazis became captivated in her graduate student days by an article in Rolling Stone magazine about the tragic case of David Reimer, who was born a healthy baby boy but was raised as a girl after his penis was burned off during a botched circumcision.
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“Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience,” by Katrina Karkazis (384 pages, Duke University Press, $23.95)
Information: www.dukeupress.edu; www.katrinakarkazis.com