Milton Diamond
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Milton Diamond (born 6 March 1934 in New York, New York) is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality.
Diamond graduated City College of New York with a B.S. in biophysics in 1955. He attended graduate school at University of Kansas from 1958-1962 and earned a Ph.D. in anatomy and psychology from University of Louisville, School of Medicine in 1966. He also completed two years toward an M.D., passing his Basic Medicine Boards.
Diamond is also known for exposing an academic cover-up by sexologist John Money in a celebrated case of David Reimer, a boy raised as a girl after a botched circumcision. Diamond tracked down Reimer and found that Money's claims of success in the "John/Joan" case were false. Diamond has also written extensively about intersex issues.
Diamond has been at University of Hawaii since 1971. He currently directs the John A. Burns School of Medicine's Pacific Center for Sex and Society, and is known for his research on the origins of sexual identity. He has been president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the International Academy of Sex Research.
Publications
- Sexual decisions (1980) - ISBN 0316183881
- Sexwatching: Looking into the World of Sexual Behaviour (1992) - ISBN 1853750247
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