Sex-change treatment: medical and social aspects

Sex-change treatment: medical and social aspects

Series Title(s):
Medicine and society forum
Contributor(s):
Towers, Bernard.
University of California, Los Angeles. School of Medicine.
Publication:
Los Angeles : Univ. of California : [for loan or sale by its Instructional Media Library], 1975
Language(s):
English
Format:
Moving image
Subject(s):
Ethics
Transsexualism
Abstract:
This video includes a panel of professionals with varying opinions on the validity of sex-change surgery and treatment. One doctor fully supports sex-change surgery, arguing that it is usually reversible among males and is the only realistic treatment to making patients feel happier and more comfortable. Another argues that sex-change treatments are expensive, therefore opening up the opportunity for doctors to take financial advantage of their patients. He also states that the lack of research and statistics on sex-change treatments is worrisome; in addition, sex-change surgery is often dangerous and unpredictable. Nevertheless, the doctors all agree that society has become more open to people who are transsexual and transgender in the past twenty years.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
060 min.
Color:
Black and white
Credits:
Bernard Towers ... [et al].
Technique:
Other
NLM Unique ID:
7602935A (See catalog record)
OCLC no.:
31643446
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7602935A