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48 quotes by Alice Dreger

Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D, is an American bioethicist and professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She is best known for her work in conjoined twinning and atypical sex characteristics (intersex or disorders of sex development). Dreger has been a featured speaker at TED Talks.
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You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from... →

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Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition... →

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What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is... →

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Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean... →

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A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate... →

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You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that... →

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Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

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I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

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Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

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According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into... →

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As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I... →

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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and... →

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