Simona Giordano is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester. Giordano graduated cum laude in Philosophy at the University La Sapienza in Rome (1995) and moved to England in 1997, to begin a PhD under the supervision of Prof. John Harris, on the ethics of treatment of people with mental illness, with a special focus on eating disorders. Giordano has lived in Manchester and worked at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy ever since. Giordano began working on gender diversity in children in 2005 and has published widely on the topic. Giordano is currently serving on the Ethics Committee of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
This book would be suitable for a wide range of courses, including those in ethics, psychology, sociology, medicine, anthropology, and political science. It is well organized, and the discussion is kept mostly at a level that would be accessible to most undergraduates, though its utility for researchers is high. * Choice *