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.
Written by Alice Dreger
essayBioethics
Intersex rights
Children born with in-between sex development are subject to surgeries that many believe violate their human rights
Alice Dreger
ideaBioethics
You might be in a medical experiment and not even know it
Alice Dreger
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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
ideaEducation
Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep
Alice Dreger