Alice Domurat Dreger, a medical humanist and bioethicist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, will present two lectures at Hamilton College, sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project. On Monday, Sept.11, Dreger will speak about "The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal" at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Auditorium (G027) in the Science Center. On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Dreger will present a lecture titled "Something Is Actually Happening: Should Academics Do Something About It?" at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium. These events are free and open to the public.
Dreger's scholarship and patient advocacy have focused on the social and medical treatment of people born with norm-challenging body types, including intersex, conjoinment, dwarfism and cleft lip. From 1998 to 2005 she served first as board chair and then as director of the Medical Education for the Intersex Society of North America. Dreger is the author of numerous articles and has published three books, most recently One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal. Her essays on science, medicine and life have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune.
The next event in this series will occur on Wednesday, Nov. 8, when Lois Weis, associate dean at the State University of New York at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education, will present a lecture titled "Unequal Outcomes: How Families and Schools Structure Social and Economic Inequalities."
