Description: Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology by Michael Dillon First edition of a landmark work in transgender studies London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1946. First edition, first printing. vi, 128 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with spine a little sunned, spine lettering mostly rubbed-off, slight lean, hint of foxing to edges. Lacking dust jacket. Rare. British physician, later Buddhist monk Michael Dillon has been called "the first trans man," due largely to his being the first person to undergo a phalloplasty. He wrote this first book, a medical/psychological/philosophical work on sexuality and gender, without mentioning his own experiences. He argued with regards to transsexualism, "Where the mind cannot be made to fit the body, the body should be made to fit, approximately at any rate, to the mind."
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Author: Dillon, Michael
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Year Printed: 1946
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Subject: Philosophy
Original/Facsimile: Original
