Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John E Fryer

  • John E. Fryer, M.D.: A majority of one

    Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden   Historical marker honoring John Fryer. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2017. Photo by NMGiovannucci on Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0.  “Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.” – Henry David Thoreau   Homosexuality was defined as a psychiatric disorder in 1952, in the first edition of…