As Nature Made Him

<p><strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>We should aspire to Colapinto's stellar journalist example: listening carefully to the circumstances of those who are different rather than demanding that they conform to our own. --<em>Washington Post</em></strong><br/></p><p><strong>The true story about the twins case and a riveting exploration of medical arrogance misguided science societal confusion gender differences and one man's ultimate triumph</strong></p><p>In 1967 after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. The boy's uninjured brother raised as a boy provided to the experiment the perfect matched control. <em>As Nature Made Him</em> tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer who when finally informed of his medical history made the decision to live as a male.</p><p>Writing with uncommon intelligence insight and compassion John Colapinto sets the historical and medical context for the case exposing the thirty-year-long scientific feud between Dr. John Money and his fellow sex researcher Dr. Milton Diamond--a rivalry over the nature/nurture debate whose very bitterness finally brought the truth to light. </p><p>A macabre tale of medical arrogance it is first and foremost a human drama of one man's--and one family's--amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.</p>