As Nature Made Him · The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

- Authors
- Colapinto, John
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Tags
- non-fiction , biography , psychology , science , gay , sociology
- ISBN
- 9780060929596
- Date
- 2000-01-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.23 MB
- Lang
- en
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine -- and a total failure. *As Nature Made Him* tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man's -- and one family's -- amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.