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Alice Dreger

Writer and scholar

Alice Dreger, PhD, is a historian of medicine and science whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, WIRED, The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, among others. Her latest book is Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice (2015), named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times. She lives in Michigan.

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Written by Alice Dreger

A newborn baby lying on a light blue blanket. The baby is resting peacefully with eyes closed, hands near its face.

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Intersex rights

Children born with in-between sex development are subject to surgeries that many believe violate their human rights

Alice Dreger

Various red, white, brown and yellow pills scattered on a dark wooden surface.

ideaBioethics

You might be in a medical experiment and not even know it

Alice Dreger

Colourised historic photo of two men, one of whom has an amputated leg, in military uniforms sitting on chairs outdoors in front of a small white building surrounded by trees.

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Visiting your leg

From morbid anatomy museums to modern consent forms, medicine wants ever more control over your body – and its parts

Alice Dreger

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ideaEducation

Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep

Alice Dreger