Article ID: CBB390437615

Gender and Cortisone: Clinical Practice and Transatlantic Exchange in the Medical Management of Intersex in the 1950s (2018)

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This article complicates the history of the standardization of intersex case management developed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s by focusing on clinical practices and logics and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge. Using patient records and published studies, I follow the exchanges between pediatric endocrinologists Lawson Wilkins (Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic, Baltimore) and Andrea Prader (University Children’s Hospital, Zürich) on cortisone treatment for children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), on psychosexuality and gender role, on choosing and changing the sex of intersex children, and on genital surgery. I argue that a focus on the transatlantic exchanges between these two clinics illuminates a more complex genealogy of modern intersex case management. It also provides insight into how physicians understood their clinical practice and sheds light on the messiness and pragmatic contingencies of what only in retrospect appears to have been a consistent treatment regime.

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Authors & Contributors
Eder, Sandra
Razumenko, Fedir
David Andrew Griffiths
Hannah Dudley-Shotwell
Carpenter, Laura M.
Sam Fernández-Garrido
Concepts
Medicine and gender
Gender identity
Psychology
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Intersex people
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Southern states (U.S.)
France
Australia
Institutions
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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