Author: Richard ReecePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Universal Dispensatory: Containing Companions to the Tropical, the Continental, the Family ... Medicine Chests ... By Reece and Co
Author: Richard ReeceBritish Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Out of the Ordinary
Author: Michael Dillon/Lobzang JivakaPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823274810
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Now available for the first time—more than 50 years after it was written—is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka’s extraordinary life story told in his own words. Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka’s various journeys—to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by ship—within the major narratives of his gender and religious journeys. Moving chronologically, Dillon/Jivaka begins with his childhood in Folkestone, England, where he was raised by his spinster aunts, and tells of his days at Oxford immersed in theology, classics, and rowing. He recounts his hormonal transition while working as an auto mechanic and fire watcher during World War II and his surgical transition under Sir Harold Gillies while Dillon himself attended medical school. He details his worldwide travel as a ship’s surgeon in the British Merchant Navy with extensive commentary on his interactions with colonial and postcolonial subjects, followed by his “outing” by the British press while he was serving aboard The City of Bath. Out of the Ordinary is not only a salient record of an early sex transition but also a unique account of religious conversion in the mid–twentieth century. Dillon/Jivaka chronicles his gradual shift from Anglican Christianity to the esoteric spiritual systems of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky to Theravada and finally Mahayana Buddhism. He concludes his memoir with the contested circumstances of his Buddhist monastic ordination in India and Tibet. Ultimately, while Dillon/Jivaka died before becoming a monk, his novice ordination was significant: It made him the first white European man to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Out of the Ordinary is a landmark publication that sets free a distinct voice from the history of the transgender movement.
Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913
Author: Harris NewmarkPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Managing Death Investigations
Author: Arthur E. WestveerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
History of Hancock County, Indiana
Author: John H. BinfordPublisher:
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Category : Greenfield (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Three Visits to America
Author: Emily FaithfullPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429004606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.