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Medical entanglements : rethinking feminist debates about healthcare / Kristina Gupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gupta, Kristina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Women.
- Women's health services.
- Trans people--Medical care.
- Trans people.
- Trans people--Health and hygiene.
- Health services accessibility.
- Feminism.
- Medical ethics.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Personal Autonomy.
- Health Services for Transgender Persons.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Bioethical Issues.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Personal Autonomy.
- Feminism.
- Health Services for Transgender Persons.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Bioethical Issues.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond "for or against" approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies - sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions - the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish."--Provided by vendor.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: No Safe Ground
- 2. Feminist Critiques of Medicine (and Some Responses)
- 3. Theorizing from Transition-Related Care: Analytical Tools for Complexity
- 4. Sexuopharmaceuticals: Queering Medicalization
- 5. Constructing Fat, Constructing Fat Stigma: Rethinking Weight-Reduction Interventions
- 6. Conclusion: Medicine without Eugenics?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-0663-9
- OCLC:
- 1128391260
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