Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1946.
First edition, first printing. vi, 128 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with dampstaining to cloth along fore edge, contents unaffected, in a Very Good dust jacket with wandering tidemark that's fairly light, darkening to spine panel, chipped at head and tail.
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"-- quite a controversial assertion at the time. Copies of the first edition are scarce.
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