One of Us

Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal

Alice Domurat Dreger

  • Honorable Mention 2005 Gustavus Myers Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

Introduction

1. The Limits of Individuality

2. Split Decisions

3. What Sacrifice

4. Freeing the Irish Giant

5. The Future of Anatomy

Notes

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Illustrations

1. Eng and Chang Bunker as young men

2. The Bunker twins with two of their sons

3. Types of conjoinment

4. Laloo and his parasitic twin

5. Abigail and Brittany Hensel at play in the family home

6. Chang and Eng Bunker engaged in various pursuits

7. Lin and Win Htut before separation

8. Cover of AORN Journal, January 1982

9. The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal

10. Charles Byrne with two other giants and several people with dwarfism

11. Advertising pamphlet for Millie and Christina McCoy

12. Crouching Figure with Visible Skeleton, by Laura Ferguson

  • Cover: One of Us
  • A photo of the author

author photo: Erin Groom

Alice Domurat Dreger is Visiting Associate Professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and Director of Medical Education at the Intersex Society of North America.