Simon LeVay
Autor(a) de When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery
About the Author
Simon LeVay, PhD; has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He has written eleven books, including the New York Times best-seller When Science Goes Wrong (2008) and the textbook Discovering Human Sexuality (2015).
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Obras por Simon LeVay
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1943-08-28
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Ocupações
- neuroscientist
- Relações
- le Vay, Benedict (brother)
- Agente
- Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 790
- Popularidade
- #32,237
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 52
- Línguas
- 4
The one gripe I did have with this book is that although a few intersex conditions such as adrenal hyperplasia and CAIS are brought up to provide evidence for the underlying role of hormones during development, LeVay never uses the term intersex in reference to these conditions. I do not know whether this is because he thinks using the term intersex might add complications, or that he somehow does not consider intersex to be a valid condition. It seems like in a book of this nature, a clear mention of intersex is needed, which left me disappointed.… (mais)