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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
The Sexual Century by ethel person yale university press, 387 pages, $25.71 In The Sexual Century , Ethel Spector Person, a New York psychoanalyst associated with Columbia University, presents...
Not So Gay Blades
The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture by howard p. chudacoff princeton university press, 352 pages, $23.98 Howard Chudacoff, a professor of history at Brown University, has...
