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  • Professor’s book examines how doctors in history established what was 'normal'

    Aug 26, 2025 10:45 am by Maggie KnutteResearch
    Professor Stephanie Hilger. College of LAS photo.

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    • Professor Stephanie Hilger. College of LAS photo.

    Stephanie Hilger's book considers how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of 'hermaphrodites' - people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia - through case histories.