MEDICINE AND CULTURE Book captures tragedy of falling foul of a fanatic*

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto, Harper Collins, Sydney Twins are invaluable to scientists as objects of study, because no two people are genetically closer than identical twins. Had Bruce and Brian Reimer not been identical twins, it is possible that Dr John Money would not have pursued Bruce (later Brenda, then David) as relentlessly as he did. For Money (who was a psychologist, not a medical doctor), his determination to pursue Bruce throughout …

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