Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1447342356
ISBN 13
9781447342359
Category
Non-fiction
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Publication Year
2018
Publisher
Pages
224
Description
This is the first book to provide an in-depth sociological examination of the contemporary social and material conditions of health for transgender people. It draws upon the findings of a six-year ethnographic project in the United Kingdom that looked at the challenges faced by trans patients and the practitioners who work with them. Ruth Pearce shows that patients and practitioners are frequently divided by their different understandings of what it means for someone to be trans, a situation that is complicated by the operation of professional power within medical settings and that has profound consequences for both healthcare provision and for trans communities more widely. - from Amzon
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1
