Standardizing Sex : A History of Trans Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slagstad, Ketil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Medical care.

Trans people.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

A history of trans medicine that uses Scandinavian sources to tell a global story. Standardizing Sex traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century, exploring the construction and negotiation of medical expertise among medical professionals, patients, and activists in the media and government bureaucracy.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

INTRODUCTION A Welfare State Story

CHAPTER 1 Eugenic Beginnings

CHAPTER 2 Sex Change and Sex Offense

CHAPTER 3 Collecting Cases, Outlining Symptoms, Making Diagnoses

CHAPTER 4 Hormone Architecture and Guinea Pigs

CHAPTER 5 The Hospital Home and Surgical Pragmatism

CHAPTER 6 Sex and the Binary State

CHAPTER 7 Society as Cause and Cure

CHAPTER 8 Draw Your Sex and I Will Tell You Who You Are

CHAPTER 9 Community Care and Scientific Activism

CHAPTER 10 Epidemiological Dreams and the Operationalization of Regret

CHAPTER 11 Bureaucratizing Medicine

CONCLUSION Social Medicine and the Norms of Health

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Interviews

Bibliography

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ISBN:

0-226-84323-8

OCLC:

1530515296