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Katrina Karkazis

Sexuality, Women's, and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Verified email at amherst.edu
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[BOOK][B] Fixing sex: Intersex, medical authority, and lived experience

K Karkazis - 2008 - books.google.com
What happens when a baby is born with “ambiguous” genitalia or a combination of “male”
and “female” body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with …

Out of bounds? A critique of the new policies on hyperandrogenism in elite female athletes

K Karkazis, R Jordan-Young, G Davis… - The American journal …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In May 2011, more than a decade after the International Association of Athletics Federations
(IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandoned sex testing, they devised …

[BOOK][B] Testosterone: An unauthorized biography

RM Jordan-Young, K Karkazis - 2019 - books.google.com
Testosterone is not what you think it is, and it is decidedly not a" male sex hormone." Here is
the authoritative life story of a maligned and misunderstood molecule. Testosterone is a …

The Powers of Testosterone

K Karkazis, RM Jordan-Young - Feminist formations, 2018 - JSTOR
Using strategies from critical race studies and feminist studies of science, medicine, and the
body, we examine the covert operation of race and region in a regulation restricting the …

[HTML][HTML] Impossible “choices”: The inherent harms of regulating women's testosterone in sport

K Karkazis, M Carpenter - Journal of bioethical inquiry, 2018 - Springer
Abstract In April 2018, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) released
new regulations placing a ceiling on women athletes' natural testosterone levels to “ensure …

Genital surgery for disorders of sex development: implementing a shared decision-making approach

K Karkazis, A Tamar-Mattis, AA Kon - 2010 - degruyter.com
Ongoing controversy surrounds early genital surgery for children with disorders of sex
development, making decisions about these procedures extraordinarily complex …

Tracking US professional athletes: The ethics of biometric technologies

K Karkazis, JR Fishman - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Professional sport in the United States has widely adopted biometric technologies,
dramatically expanding the monitoring of players' biodata. These technologies have the …

What's in a name? The controversy over" disorders of sex development"

EK Feder, K Karkazis - The Hastings Center Report, 2008 - JSTOR
For a decade now, the two of us have taken a critical stance toward the medical treatment of
children with intersex conditions. While clinicians have been over whelmingly focused on …

The misuses of “biological sex”

K Karkazis - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Whether one is entering into military service, seeking identity documents, or participating in
sports, the categorisation of bodies according to “sex” is central to the organisation of …

Nicotine addiction through a neurogenomic prism: ethics, public health, and smoking

L Caron, K Karkazis, TA Raffin… - Nicotine & Tobacco …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Studies are under way to examine the neurogenetic factors contributing to smoking
behaviors. The combined approaches of genomics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and …