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Therapeutic Jurisprudence
After the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, a crisis of meaning emerged in opinions of the United States Supreme Court dealing with reproduction and sex. The law became less...
Surgical Sex
When the practice of sex-change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would...
The Making of a Killer
Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. by Alston Chase W.W. Norton. 432 pp. $26.95 Beginning in 1978 and continuing until he was apprehended in 1996,...
Handbook of Religion and Health
The tradition of the scientific handbook as a concise, accessible source of validated information emerged in the late nineteenth century when the factual burden of scientific and medical subjects...
The Sexual Century
In The Sexual Century , Ethel Spector Person, a New York psychoanalyst associated with Columbia University, presents a collection of her essays on sexual development and pathology written over...
Not So Gay Blades
The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subcultureby howard p. chudacoffprinceton university press, 341 pages, $29.95 Howard Chudacoff, a professor of history at Brown University, has written what...
