Ethics and Intersex

Book Overview

This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality. It fills an important need because of its uniqueness as an interdisciplinary effort, bringing together not just urologists and endocrinologists, but gynecologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers, theologians, gender theorists, medical historians, and philosophers. Most contributors are well-known experts on intersexuality in their respective fields. The book is also unique in that it is also an international effort, including authors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, India, Canada and the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402043139
• ISBN13: 9781402043130
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"