Jack Drescher

May 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jack Drescher |Columbia NY USA

In 1974, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed the diagnosis of homosexuality from the DSM-II1, 2. In 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) followed suit, removing the homosexuality diagnosis from the ICD-103. In 2019, the WHO went a step further and removed the diagnosis of “transsexualism”, now renamed “gender incongruence”, from the ICD-11 chapter on mental disorders.

Apr 12, 2023 | psychiatrictimes.com | Jack Drescher

Apr 12, 2023 | psychologytoday.com | Jack Drescher

Apr 6, 2023 | meridian.allenpress.com | Michael Farrell |Jack Drescher |Alan Schwartz |Flavio Casoy

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine Harvard University Press, 2021 Applying the study of history to medicine can often be uncomfortable, so I had some trepidation as I picked up Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs. The title certainly grabbed my attention; did these events really transform medicine? After reading this provocative book, it is hard to argue otherwise.

Apr 5, 2023 | meridian.allenpress.com | Michael Farrell |Jack Drescher