A. Ivan Sanchez Hervas
Published: 9 December 2024
Doctoral thesis on the medico-legislation of sex in early twentieth-century Scotland with a focus on the social history of intersex.
Native to Mexico, Antonio Ivan completed an undergraduate degree in Economic & Social History with Quantitative Methods and later an MSc in History and Conflict Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. From early on, his research interests aligned with the medicalisation and recording of deviance. His MSc dissertation focused on the development of diagnostic classifications for nervous disorders following the First World War and the effects of taxonomical models on the statistical and cultural recording of disease. For his doctoral thesis, he shifted his focus back to the medico-legislation of sex as part of a broader social history of medicine and a growing historiography of transition in the twentieth century. Central to his research are the unique experiences of intersex individuals navigating an increasingly complex network of legal registration and medicalisation.