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Christopher John Dewhurst

{{short description|British gynecologist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Christopher John Dewhurst

| honorific_suffix = M.B., F.R.C.S.(Ed), F.R.C.O.G.

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1920|07|02}}

| birth_place = Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2006|12|01|1920|07|02}}

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| nationality = British

| education = Manchester University

| occupation = Gynecologist

| years_active = 1945?–1986

| known_for = Jack Dewhurst

| profession = Professor, physician

| work_institutions = Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

| specialism = Pediatric and adolescent gynecology, intersexuality

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| notable_works = Practical, Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology; Integrated Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Postgraduates

| spouse = Hazel Dewhurst

({{Abbr|m.|Married}} {{circa|1951}})

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Sir Christopher John "Jack" Dewhurst {{Postnominals|country=GBR|MB|FRCS|FRCOG}} (2 July 1920 – 1 December 2006) was a British gynecologist.{{cite journal|last1=Edmonds|first1=D K|title=Christopher John ("Jack") Dewhurst|journal=BMJ|volume=335|issue=7611|year=2007|pages=162|issn=0959-8138|doi=10.1136/bmj.39266.736748.BE|pmc=1925175}}{{cite journal|last1=Muram|first1=David|last2=Edmonds|first2=D.K.|title=Professor Sir John Dewhurst (1920–2006)|journal=Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology|volume=20|issue=2|year=2007|pages=147–148|issn=1083-3188|doi=10.1016/j.jpag.2007.01.005|doi-access=free}}{{cite web | title = Sir Jack Dewhurst | date = 28 March 2007 | publisher = The Telegraph | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1546847/Sir-Jack-Dewhurst.html}} He was Professor and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London University, from 1967 to 1985. He served as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1975 to 1978.

Sir Christopher Dewhurst was knighted in 1978 for his work in medicine. He is considered to be one of the founders of the medical specialty of pediatric and adolescent gynecology. Sir Dewhurst published 109 peer-reviewed publications and co-wrote 13 medical textbooks during his career.

Sir Dewhurst chaired the 1st International Symposium on Gender Identity in London, United Kingdom in 1969 and provided the opening remarks for the conference.{{cite web | title=International Symposia | website=WPATH World Professional Association for Transgender Health | date= | url=https://www.wpath.org/about/history/international-symposia | access-date=24 September 2022}}Scott, Peter, Randall, John, and Dewhurst, C.J.. "First International Symposium on Gender Identity, London, 1969." Sound Recording. 1969. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/h702q6471 (accessed September 24, 2022).[https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/History/Symposium/1969/Prof%20Dewhurst%20Opening%20Remarks.pdf Opening Remarks], wpath.org. Accessed 8 January 2023.

Selected publications

=Books=

  • {{cite book|author=Christopher John Dewhurst|title=A Student's Guide to Obstetrics and Gynaecology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOUhAQAAMAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Baillière, Tindall & Cassell}}
  • {{cite book|author=Christopher John Dewhurst|title=Gynaecological Disorders of Infants and Children|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQFtAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Cassell}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Christopher John Dewhurst|author2=Ronald Roger Gordon|title=The Intersexual Disorders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWRsAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Baillière, Tindall & Cassell|isbn=9780702002809 }}
  • {{cite book|author=Christopher John Dewhurst|title=Integrated Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Postgraduates|url=https://archive.org/details/integratedobstet00dewh|url-access=registration|year=1972|publisher=Blackwell Scientific|isbn=978-0-632-06660-5|quote=Original title was to be "Disorders of Reproduction and the Reproductive Organs" but changed prior to publication.}}
  • {{cite book|editor=Christopher John Dewhurst|title=Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology|series=Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology|year=1974|volume=3pages=481–702|publisher=W.B. Saunders|location=London/Philadelphia|isbn=9780598186546|oclc=1858813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia6jxgEACAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Chamberlain|author2=Sir Christopher John Dewhurst|author3=Mark McCarthy|title=A Practice of Obstetrics and Gynaecology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMFsAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Pitman Medical|isbn=978-0-272-79388-6}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Sir Christopher John Dewhurst|author2=Geoffrey Chamberlain|title=Practical Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yctsAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|edition=1|publisher=M. Dekker|isbn=978-0-8247-6978-9}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Sir John Dewhurst|title=Royal Confinements: A Gynaecological History of Britain's Royal Family|url=https://archive.org/details/royalconfinement00dewh|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-69466-1}}
  • {{cite book|author1=John William Huffman|author2=Sir Christopher John Dewhurst|author3=Vincent J. Capraro|title=The Gynecology of Childhood and Adolescence|url=https://archive.org/details/gynecologyofchil0000huff|url-access=registration|year=1981|publisher=Saunders|isbn=978-0-7216-4816-3}}
  • {{citation | author = Sir Christopher John Dewhurst | title = Female Puberty and its Abnormalities | series = Current Reviews in Obstetrics and Gynecology | volume = 9 | date = 1 September 1984 | publisher = Churchill Livingstone | isbn = 9780443030598 | issn = 0264-5610 | lccn = 84003134 | oclc = 828175741 | ol = OL2841261M | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gZOhMQEACAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Sir Christopher John Dewhurst|author2=Michael De Swiet|author3=Geoffrey Chamberlain|title=Basic Science in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: A Textbook for MRCOG|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLdsAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Churchill Livingstone|isbn=978-0-443-02287-6}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Chamberlain|author2=Charlotte R. Gibbings|author3=Sir Christopher John Dewhurst|title=Illustrated Textbook of Obstetrics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CrJsAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Lippincott|isbn=978-0-397-44580-6}}

==Latest editions==

  • {{cite book|author=D. Keith Edmonds|title=Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology|edition=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HfakBRceodcC|date=13 February 2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-65457-6}}
  • {{cite book|author=D. Keith Edmonds|title=Dewhurst's Practical Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology|edition=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVp-DAAAQBAJ|date=1989|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-1-4831-6291-1}}

=Book chapters=

  • {{cite book | vauthors = Huffman J, Dewhurst CJ, Capraro VJ | chapter = The breast and its disorders in childhood and adolescence | title = The Gynecology of Childhood and Adolescence | edition = 2 | year = 1981 | publisher = WB Saunders Co. | pages = 542–559 | url = https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=8466684331194348175}}

=Journal articles=

  • {{cite journal | vauthors = Dewhurst CJ | title = The XY female | journal = J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw | volume = 74 | issue = 3 | pages = 353–66 | date = June 1967 | pmid = 6026613 | doi = 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1967.tb03959.x | s2cid = 36189343 }}
  • {{cite journal | vauthors = Dewhurst CJ | title = The XY female child | journal = Arch. Dis. Child. | volume = 45 | issue = 242 | pages = 595–9 | date = August 1970 | pmid = 5528744 | pmc = 1647631 | doi = 10.1136/adc.45.242.595 }}
  • {{cite journal | vauthors = Dewhurst CJ | title = The XY female | journal = Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. | volume = 109 | issue = 5 | pages = 675–88 | date = March 1971 | pmid = 5101599 | doi = 10.1016/0002-9378(71)90753-8 }}
  • {{cite journal | vauthors = Dewhurst CJ | title = The aetiology and management of intersexuality | journal = Clin. Endocrinol. (Oxf) | volume = 4 | issue = 6 | pages = 625–42 | date = November 1975 | pmid = 1104219 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1975.tb01932.x | s2cid = 34236804 | doi-access = free }}
  • {{cite journal | vauthors = Capraro VJ, Dewhurst CJ | title = Breast disorders in childhood and adolescence | journal = Clin Obstet Gynecol | volume = 18 | issue = 2 | pages = 25–50 | date = June 1975 | pmid = 1170054 | doi = 10.1097/00003081-197506000-00003 | s2cid = 26676081 }}
  • {{cite journal | vauthors = Dewhurst J | title = Breast disorders in children and adolescents | journal = Pediatr. Clin. North Am. | volume = 28 | issue = 2 | pages = 287–308 | date = May 1981 | pmid = 7195539 | doi = 10.1016/s0031-3955(16)33997-9 }}

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