Milton Diamond (born 6 March 1934 in New York City[1]) is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality.
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Early career
Milton Diamond graduated from the City College of New York with a B.S. in biophysics in 1955[1], after which he spent three years in the Army as an engineering officer, stationed in Japan[2]. On returning to the United States, he attended graduate school at University of Kansas from 1958-1962 and earned a Ph.D. in anatomy and psychology from that University[2]. His first job was teaching at the University of Louisville, School of Medicine where he simultaneously completed two years toward an M.D., passing his Basic Medicine Boards[1], and in 1967 he moved to Hawai'i to take up a post at the recently-established John A. Burns School of Medicine.
The "John/Joan" case
Dr. Diamond is known for following up the case of David Reimer, a boy raised as a girl after a botched circumcision. With the cooperation of Dr. H. Keith Sigmundson, who had been Reimer's supervising psychiatrist, he tracked down the adult Reimer and found that John Money's sex reassignment of Reimer had failed. This case, which Dr. Diamond named that of "John/Joan" to protect Reimer's privacy, has become one of the most cited cases in the literature of psychiatry, anthropology, women's studies, child development, and biology of gender.
Current work, appointments and awards
Dr. Diamond has written extensively about abortion and family planning, pornography, intersexuality, transsexuality, and other sex- and reproduction-related issues for professional sex and legal journals, as well as lay periodicals. He is frequently interviewed for public media and legal matters, and often serves as an expert in court proceedings, and is known for his research on the origins and development of sexual identity
Appointments
Dr. Diamond has been based at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, now at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, since 1967[2]. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology in 1971, and since 1985 he has been Director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society[2] within the School of Medicine.
In 1999 Dr. Diamond was appointed as President of the International Academy of Sex Research[3], and in 2001/02 as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality[4].
Awards
Awards which have been made to Dr. Diamond include:
- 1999: the British GIRES Research Prize[5];
- 2000: the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual science[6];
- 2005: the Norwegian Diversity Prize for his research efforts on behalf of transsexual and transgender people world-wide;
- 2008: the first of a proposed annual award made by the German Intersex Society (Intersexuelle Menschen e.V.)[7] "for his decades-long commitment to the benefit of intersex people"[8];
- 2009: the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research by the University of Hawai'i[9].
Publications
- Sexual decisions (1980) - ISBN 0-316-18388-1
- Sexwatching: Looking into the World of Sexual Behaviour (1992) - ISBN 1-85375-024-7
- Sexual Behavior in Pre Contact Hawai’i: A Sexological Ethnography[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c "Scientific Advisory Board". Archive for Sexology. http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/Entrance_Page/About_Us/Advisory_Board/advisory_board.htm#DIA. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
- ^ a b c d "An Introduction to Professor Milton Diamond Ph.D.". Changeling Aspects. http://www.changelingaspects.com/Technical/Prof%20M%20Diamond-bio.htm. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
- ^ "Meeting History". International Academy of Sex Research. http://www.iasr.org/node/1. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ "Society Presidents". The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. http://www.sexscience.org/about/index.php?category_id=1182. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ "Past awards for research". Gender Identity Research and Education Society. http://www.gires.org.uk/awards1999.php5. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ "Archive for Sexology". HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN. http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/LAUDA.HTM. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
- ^ "Intersexuelle Menschen e.V.". http://www.intersexuelle-menschen.net. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ "Zwischengeschlechtliche ehrten Milton Diamond". Zwischengeschlecht.info. http://www.intersexuelle-menschen.net/IMEVzusatz/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=3. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ "Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research awarded to outstanding UH faculty". University of Hawai'i System. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=3055. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
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