Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026
Question médico-légale de l’identité dans ses rapport avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels contenant les souvenirs et impressions d’un individu dont le sexe avait été méconnu.
Publication Details
Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1872 CE.
Includes the first printing of the memoirs of "Alexina B" a French intersex person whose actual name was Herculine Barbin. Digital facsimile of the revised second edition (1874) from Google Books at this link. Translated into English with an introduction and supporting documents by Michel Foucault as Herculine Barbin: Being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century French hermaphrodite, New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Foucault's introduction appears only in the English language edition.
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Thematic Classifications
| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
|---|---|
| Entry Number | #13380 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15651 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | question-mdicolgale-de-lidentit-dans-ses-rapport-avec-les-vices-de-conformation-des-organes-sexuels-contenant-les-souvenirs-et-impressions-dun-individu-dont-le-sexe-avait-t-mconnu |
Geographic Context
Publication place: Paris
Mentioned in annotation: New York