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Of course, our eyes are prepared for it by modern art. The Flag Gate, found in Jefferson County, N.Y., with its wavy battens of red-painted wood delicately mimicking the ripple of fabric stripes in a breeze, inevitably suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident...
It's also framed. The doctors and the shrinks who prove powerless before the problem of possession, are trustees of an irrelevant authority. "What bullshit!" the mother explodes at their diagnosis. So they suggest exorcism. But what doctor, what authority of objective science, however frustrated, would turn to sorcery? How...
Careful Screening. Though the first modern medically supervised sex-change operation took place in Europe in 1930, transexual surgery did not attract wide notice until the transformation of a former G.I. named George Jorgensen to Christine* in 1952. In 1966 Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore opened its Gender Identity Clinic...
Less than half as many operations are requested by women as by men. According to Johns Hopkins Medical Psychologist John Money, the preponderance of men transexuals reflects the fact that men are far more vulnerable to psychosexual disorders than women. Moreover, female-to-male operations are more difficult, more lengthy...
Eisenberg himself came from a middle-class Philadelphia family, and entered the University of Pennsylvania convinced he wanted to be a doctor but with "a very vague and idealized notion of what the physician's role was going to be." He went on to Penn's medical school, where he...