Authors: Timothy F. Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780231108492, ISBN-10: 0231108494
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Timothy F. Murphy is associate professor in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the author of Ethics in Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture; editor of Gay Ethics: Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science; and coeditor of Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis; and Justice and the Human Genome Project.
Drawing on a wide range of studies in neuroanatomy, genetics, and psychology, Murphy systematically reviews the purpose and goals of gay science, arguing that that science, for better or worse, represents a vital channel through which a more complete understanding of homosexuality can be established.
A welcome addition to the debate . . . . [Murphy] offers a scientifically well-informed and balanced review of the recent research and its possible ethical implications.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Scientific Accounts of Sexual Orientation | 13 |
2 | The Value of Sexual Orientation Research | 49 |
3 | The Practice of Sexual Orientation Therapy | 75 |
4 | Controlling the Sexual Orientation of Children | 103 |
5 | The Use of Sexual Orientation Tests | 137 |
6 | Sexual Orientation Research, Nature, and the Law | 165 |
7 | Science and the Future | 193 |
Epilogue | 223 | |
Notes | 231 | |
Index | 259 |