Between XX and XY

Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes

Gerald N. Callahan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2016
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-61373-654-8 (ISBN)

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What makes someone a boy or a girl? Is it external genitalia, chromosomes, DNA, environment, or some combination of these factors? Not even doctors or scientists are entirely clear. What is clear is that sex is not girl/boy or XX/XY, switching between two poles like an on/off switch on a radio.

Rather, sex is like the bass and treble knobs on that radio. In this eye-opening exploration of the science of sex, Gerald N. Callahan, PhD, challenges our notion of two opposite sexes. Human sex is more than it appears to be. Using a brief history of sex from the ancient Greeks to the geneticists of the twentieth century, he shows us how our understanding of the sexual development of human beings is constantly evolving.

By sharing the extraordinary stories of people living with intersex conditions such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome, Between XX and XY reveals that the path of sexual development is as varied as humans themselves

Gerald N. Callahan, PH.D is an immunologist and pathologist with more than thirty years of experience in biomedical research. He is the author of Infection: The Uninvited Universe and Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception. He is currently a professor at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	263 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-61373-654-1 / 1613736541
ISBN-13	978-1-61373-654-8 / 9781613736548
Zustand	Neuware