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A powerful defense of intellectual flexibility informed through the ordeals of modern-day experts attacked for checking out controversial ideas, with a noted science historian and medical activist. A study of some of the most contentious debates of the time, Galileo's Middle Finger identifies Alice Dreger's experience on the front lines of methodical controversy, where for just two decades she has functioned as an advocate for victims of unethical research while also defending the right of experts to pursue challenging research into individual identities. Dreger's own efforts to reconcile academics flexibility with the quest for justice grew out of her research into the treatment of folks created intersex (previously called hermaphrodites). The surprising history of operative mutilation and moral abuses conducted in the name of "normalizing" intersex children moved her to become a patient rights' activist. By getting evidence to medical professionals and the public, she helped change the medical system.
