Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond (born March 6, 1934 in New York ) is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii . He has been long and very productive in the study of human sexuality during his academic career .
life and work
Diamond completed his college studies at the City College of New York with the Bachelor of Science in Biophysics , and attended further studies at the University of Kansas from 1958 to 1962. There ended, he graduated with a doctoral degree ( Ph. D. ) in anatomy and Psychology . He then taught at the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville , while at the same time completing the first two years of medical studies and graduating with a physics degree.
Diamond was best known for publishing the later life of David Reimer , a boy raised as a girl after a failed circumcision . Together with Reimer's responsible psychiatrist, Dr. H. Keith Sigmundson , Diamond tracked down the adult Reimer and discovered that Reimer's sex reassignment initiated by John Money had failed. This case study that Diamond to protect identity Reimers John / Joan called, was one of the most cited cases in the literature of the areas psychiatry, psychology, women's studies , child development and biology of sex , including Judith Butler Undoing Gender . Diamond has also published extensively on abortion , family planning , pornography , intersexuality , transsexuality and other sexualitäts- published and reproduction-related topics in sexology, legal and amateur-oriented magazines. He is often interviewed on publicly discussed or legal issues and is also used as an expert in court.
Diamond has worked at the University of Hawaii since 1967, where he now heads the Pacific Center for Sex and Society at the John A. Burns School of Medicine . He was chairman of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality ( Society for the scientific study of sexuality ) and the International Academy of Sex Research ( International Academy for Sexology ). In 1999 he was awarded the British GIRES Research Prize, and in 2000 Diamond received the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for research into sexology . He was awarded the Norwegian Diversity Prize for his research in the field of transsexuality and transgender .
Fonts (selection)
- Essays
- Rodent hormones and behavior . In: Allan W. Stokes (Ed.): Praktikum der Behavior Research ("Animal behavior in laboratory and field", 1968). Fischer, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-437-30127-6 .
- Social Regulations of Sexuality. Legitimacy strategies and their social costs . In: Nicolas Pethes, Silke Schickedanz (ed.): Sexuality as an experiment. Identity, lust and reproduction between science and fiction . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2008, pp. 173-220, ISBN 978-3-593-38608-9 .
- Monographs
- Sexual decisions . Little Brown, Boston, Mass. 1980, ISBN 0-316-18388-1 .
- Sex watching. Looking into the World of Sexual Behavior . Guild, Publ., London 1992, ISBN 1-85375-024-7 .
Web links
- Website: The Pacific Center for Sex and Society
- Milton Diamond writes to Germaine Greer ( Memento of May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Milton Diamond Ph. D., Hertha Richter-Appelt: The most important sexual organ is located between the ears. Interview with Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung , 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diamond, Milton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American anatomist, biologist, and sexologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |