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John William Money , Ph.D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moneyç
(8 de Julio 1921–7 Julio 2006)
Queridos amigos:
Ponemos a vuestra disposición esta página para rendir testimonio a nuestro querido John Money. Con el desaparece una etapa de la historia de la sexología que nos ha tocado vivir. Pero su recuerdo y su obra siempre estará entre nosotros
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In memoria de John Money
Ilustración: Ricardo Fumanal.
14 de julio de 2006.- Se ha muerto nuestro amigo John un día antes de cumplir 85 años. Él, quien desde hace años vivía "una vida regalada", como le gustaba decir después de sufrir un cáncer de próstata. John Money fue una figura polémica en el mundo de la sexología, especialmente en los últimos años de su vida. Investigador arriesgado y brillante pensador, fue profesor de pediatría y psicología médica en la Universidad John Hopkins desde 1951.
Se adentró en los misterios del desarrollo psicosexual, aportando conceptos como identidad de género y rol de género. Fue un pionero en el estudio de las fantasías sexuales, parafilias y un largo etcétera. El Profesor Money fue el primer miembro de honor de la Asociación Española de Sociedades de Sexología (AEES) y se ha propuesto que el premio de investigación de la Federación Española de Sociedades de Sexología (FESS) lleve su nombre.
Neozelandés de origen, genuino 'Kiwi' −le gustaba decir haciendo alusión, entre otras cosas, al pájaro nacional de Nueva Zelanda−. Su espíritu libre le llevaba a tener en su casa un globo terráqueo donde su país de origen estaba situado en el centro, cuestionando la arbitraria y centralista ubicación ortodoxa.
John formaba parte de ese mundo de principios del siglo XX, donde los viajes podían ser verdaderas aventuras y la antropología era la colección de un cúmulo de rarezas. En el hospital John Hopkins, los guerreros de tamaño natural −traídos de los mares del sur− recibían al visitante envueltos en el verde de las plantas que cuidaba con esmero. La frondosidad de las hojas y las tallas de madera daban un aire tropical y exótico a su despacho.
En su casa de Baltimore te podías encontrar −al lado de una cabeza reducida de jíbaro− el martillo y las herramientas de su padre −un carpintero neozelandés, al que su hijo, fiel a sus orígenes, rendía tributo−. Sus libros y más libros por doquier, en distintas ediciones. También retratos de un atractivo John, que vivió plenamente la revolución sexual y fue todo un seductor sin discriminar razas ni sexos.
Con él hemos tenido el privilegio de compartir muchas vivencias. Él fue el conferenciante principal del Congreso Mundial de Sexología de Valencia. Por su trayectoria y edad, se había convertido en persona de culto en el mundo de la sexología. Había que verlo en los congresos siendo requerido para posados fotográficos, como si de un cantante de moda se tratara. Alguno de nuestros amigos sexólogos ha bromeado sobre este hecho comentando: "He dormido en la misma cama que John Money", cuando se han quedado a dormir en nuestra casa.
A John le encantaba el turrón de Jijona, que nosotros le descubrimos y le llevábamos cuando nos encontrábamos en los congresos. Esta Navidad −y cuánto lo sentimos− se quedó pendiente el envío del turrón. Aún la semana pasada recordábamos la tarea pendiente de enviarle un paquete a John para aliviar la triste soledad de la demencia, que cada vez le engullía más. Él se aferraba desesperadamente a su lucidez para estudiar la demencia desde dentro. Manteniéndose así fiel hasta el final a ese afán investigador que marcó toda su vida…
María Pérez, Juanjo Borrás y Xud Zubieta
Publicado en nuestra sección de blogs de
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/hemeroteca/blogs/sexo/2006/28.html
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Prof. John Money, Dra. María Perez y Dr. Juan Jose Borras.
II Congreso Nacional de Educación Sexual y Sexologia.
Zacatecas, México, 1996
Prof. John Money
Ilustración de Silvia Pérez durante su intervención en el
XIII Congreso Mundial de Sexología
Valencia, España, 1997
In memoria de John Money (English version)
14th July, 2006.- Our friend John Money has passed away, just a day before his 85th birthday age. He, who has lived a “bonus life”, as he was keen to insist, given he had a prostate cancer for some years. John Money was a polemical celebrity in the world of sexology, especially in the latter period of his life. He was a courageous researcher and a brilliant thinker, a professor of pediatrics and medical psychology in the John Hopkins University since 1951.
He immersed himself in the mysteries of psychosexuality, contributing with concepts such as gender identity and roles. He was a pioneer in the study of sexual fantasies, paraphilias and so on. Professor Money was the first honor member of the Asociación Española de Sociedades de Sexología (AEES) −Spanish Association of Sexology Societies−. We are currently proposing to give his name to the Research Prize granted by the Federación Española de Sociedades de Sexología (Fess) −Spanish Federation of Sexology Societies−.
New Zealand was his country of origin and he was a genuine “kiwi”, refering −among other things− to the national bird. His free spirit led him to have in his house a globe with New Zealand in the most prominent point, questioning thus the arbitrary and centralist orthodox location of the continents.
John came from the world of the beginning of the XX century, when journeys could be real adventures and when Anthropology was the accumulation of rare items. In the John Hopkins Hospital, the warriors of natural size −purchased in the Southern Seas− welcomed visitors, together with all the green hues produced by the plants that he relished to look after there. The lushness of the leaves and the wooden figures gave a tropical and exotic air to his office.
In his Baltimore house you could find −next to the Jibaro miniature head− the hammer and the tools that belonged to his father −a carpenter from New Zealand, to whom his son gave tribute in this fashion−. Books and more books everywhere, in different editions... as well as photographs of an attractive John, who lived the sexual revolution fully and was an eager seducer, making no discrimination due to race or gender.
With him we had the privilege to share very many experiences. He was the main speaker in the World Congress of Sexology of Valencia. Given his background and age, he became a cult figure in the world of sexology. It was interesting to see how his presence was required in congresses for photo sessions, as if he were a pop star. Some sexologists friends of us have joked saying: “I have slept in the same bed as John Money”. This is when they had slept in our house.
John Money liked Jijona´s turrón that we introduced to him and that we usually gave him in our encounters during congresses. We regret that last Christmas we did not manage to send him his share of turrón (Spanish sweet delicatessen). Even last week we commented that it was still pending to be sent a pack of it to sweeten the loneliness produced by the dementia that he suffered more and more. He desperately tried to grasp to his lucidity in order to study the dementia from within. Even during those tough days he thus tried to be faithful to his researching spirit, the one that marked most of his life…
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El viernes a las 12:05 daba su último suspiro John Money, después de haber tenido hace unos días, al parecer, un accidente vasculocerebral. Este gran maestro, padre del actual concepto de género, uno de los primeros estudiosos de las fantasías sexuales y experto en el estudio de las parafilias, al igual que todos los grandes, murió queriendo aportar conocimientos para el mejor bienestar de la humanidad, de hecho, como había entrado en demencia, aprovechaba los momento de lucidez para escribir acerca de cómo se vive la demencia desde dentro.
Tuvo una vida intensa y en su vejez tuvo que asistir a las inmerecidas críticas y falsos testimonios sobre su intervención con los famosos gemelos. Sus colaboradores iniciales nunca pudieron perdonarle su brillantez y, hasta el final, han estado machacándolo a pesar de haber sido él una de esas pocas personas que “no se resignan a la fiesta del engaño y la canalla que asola este inmerecido planeta”.
No quiso tener un funeral y su cuerpo lo cedió, cómo no, a la ciencia.
Qué en paz descanse el maestro.
Paco Cabello.
Presidente de Honor de la Federación Española de Sociedades de Sexología. FESS http://www.fess.org.es/
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NY TIMES
NATIONAL | July 11, 2006
John William Money, 84, Sexual Identity Researcher, Dies By BENEDICT
CAREY
John William Money, who helped found the field of sexual identity studies, died Friday in Towson, Md. He was 84.
The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease, said Dr. Money's niece Sally Hopkins.
A psychologist at Johns Hopkins University for over 50 years, Dr. Money brought a measure of scientific compassion to a field that through the 1950's considered cases of sexual ambiguity as oddities, glitches in the natural order of biologically determined sexuality.
In papers on infants born with ambiguous genitalia and in later studies, Dr. Money challenged those assumptions, providing a systematic theory for understanding how sexual identity developed. He argued that social and environmental cues interacted with a child's genes and hormones to shape whether the person identified as male or female.
"He was the first scientist to provide a language to describe the psychological dimensions of human sexual identity; no such language had existed before," said Dr. Kenneth J. Zucker, psychologist in chief at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
Early in his career, Dr. Money coined the terms "gender identity," to describe the internal experience of sexuality, and "gender role," to refer to social expectations of male and female behavior. The two concepts still drive much research into sexual identity.
He was among the first scientists to study the psychological experience of sexual confusion and to grasp possible ways to relieve suffering. He was an early proponent of sex reassignment surgery for men and women who believed that their biologically given sex was at odds with their sexual identity.
He was co-editor of the influential 1969 book "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment," which helped bring the surgery wider acceptance.
In studies, he tracked the progress of "intersex" children - infants born with ambiguous genitals - who were raised as boys or girls. He also consulted frequently with parents who were trying to decide how to raise a child with ambiguous or damaged genitals.
In one of these cases, known as the "John/Joan" case, Dr. Money became embroiled in a controversy that was discussed widely and repeatedly in books and on television.
After consulting with Dr. Money in 1966, the parents of a young boy whose penis had been destroyed in a botched circumcision decided to raise their son as a girl. In 1973, Dr. Money reported that the child, who had been castrated and furnished with dresses and dolls, was doing well, and had accepted the new identity as a girl.
But in a 1997 report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, a pair of researchers provided a detailed follow-up: the boy had repudiated his female identity at age 14 and had even had surgery to reconstruct his genitals.
The report caused an uproar, and Dr. Money was criticized in news reports and in a book on the case.
In 2004, the man who had reclaimed his sex committed suicide. His family blamed the effort to change his sex.
Dr. Money was mortified by the case, colleagues said, and as a rule did not discuss it. "Given what the field knew at the time, Money made the right call about what to do" with the child, said Dr. Richard Green, a former colleague and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's easy in hindsight to say it was wrong, but I would have done the same thing."
Doctors today are far more wary of trying to re-engineer biology in this way, particularly in rare cases of badly damaged genitals, when the genetic sex is clear. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of prenatal exposure to hormones in shaping sexual identity.
Dr. Money was born near Auckland, New Zealand, and grew up near Wellington. He was a star student at the University of Otago and became an instructor there before winning a grant to study at the University of Pittsburgh in 1947. He later went to Harvard for graduate work, and in 1951 arrived at Johns Hopkins, where he spent the rest of his career.
"The forces of antisex cry in moral outrage when confronted with the evidence of sexual disabilities, and blame the new freedom," he wrote in a 1975 Op-Ed article in The New York Times titled "Recreational – and Procreational - Sex."
"In fact," he continued, "they should blame the excess of inhibition and punishment regarding sex during the childhood of those whose sexuality is now disabled."
Dr. Money was married briefly in the 1950's. He is survived by eight nieces and nephews
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Colleagues,
The Kinsey Institute has just been informed that Dr. John Money that he died today at 12:05pm today in St Joseph's Hospital in Baltimore. He was with family. It was one day before his 85th birthday and greetings and good wishes were arriving from the world community. Dr. Money's work and person will be followed and reinterpreted with vigor and interest over the next decades as it was throughout his remarkable academic career.
We thank him and honor his lifelong contribution of great depth and courage,
Julia R. Heiman, Ph.D.
Director, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Morrison Hall 313
Indiana University
1165 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3700
Institute Phone: 812/855-7686
FAX: 812/855-8277
Mail to: jheiman@indiana.edu
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Dear friends,
I know that most of you have heard by now, that our dean John has passed away. I did not mention in my previous mail about his recent problems as things were uncertain and Sally thought it best to wait to inform people until things were clearer.
About a week ago, John fell and really got banged up - and was in the hospital and then was transfered to rehabilitation. I happened to have a planned visit with him on the 4th of July. I visited with him. He was quite frail but nothing seemed to be imminant. While he was clearly suffering from dementia, he had his lucid moments and seem to recognize me. I knew this would be the last time I saw him and I kissed him goodbye.
I had the opportunity to spend time with Sally, his neice, and we had a lovely 4th of July party together at the home of Chris Kraft with many of his friends at Johns Hopkins.
I left knowing that it would not be long for John but I did not expect this to come this quickly - nor did anyone else. He actually rallied and was back on his feet on Thursday, shouting at nurses, and plans were in the works for many of his dear friends to visit him on his birthday today.
Then, we received word that he slipped into a coma on Thursday - and was quite comfortable until the end. Sally was able to be there with him - and it was a peaceful death. And, of course, we learned that he passed away at 12:05 on Friday.
Sally and the family are indeed saddened but relieved that he is at peace and no longer suffering. As you know, the hardest thing for him was his inability to work. Even up until the end, he was working in his own way in his head - wanted to write about the experience of dementia - from an inside view. He always complained (not an unusual thing) that his body had betrayed him.
It was very hard in these last years to see that betrayal in a man that was ever inquisitive and wanting to make some contribution. It is with great sadness that I write all of this - but I know that knowing some of what has happened is comforting.
Sally is doing well. She appreciates all the birthday greetings- and shared many of them with John before he died. And, he died knowing that he was loved and not forgotten.
You can write Sally or the family at:
Sally Hopkins
2104 E. Madison Street
Baltimore, MD
21205-2337 USA
Phone: 410-327-3433 or you can send her an email: shopkins2106@yahoo.com
Best,
Eli Coleman
Professor. Director of Program in Human Sexuality
http://www.fp.umn.edu/fm/research/faculty/coleman.html
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SSSS Colleagues:
Unfortunately, we have lost another „giant‚ from our field. John served as the president of SSSS from 1972-1974. He held the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award and was a Fellow of The Society.
We offer our sincerest condolences to his family, friends and professional colleagues.
I will send additional information to you as it becomes available.
David L. Fleming, M.S.
Executive Director
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
P.O. Box 416 Allentown,PA 18105
Ph:610-530-2483 Fax: 610-530-2485
http://www.sexscience.org/
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Dear friends,
I cannot believe John has died! I just sent him happy birthday greetings in advance yesterday because I had to fly to Geneva...He was really a great man and scientist and I keep so nice memories of him here in Rome! He was so sweet...
Regards
Chiara Simonelli
Associate professor in clinical sexology at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. Regular lecturer in the psychology and psychopathology of sexual behaviour.
http://www.f1000medicine.com/about/biography/1359318138855023
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