Medical Entanglements : : Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare / / Kristina Gupta.
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 arg...
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Gupta, Kristina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Medical Entanglements : Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare / Kristina Gupta. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019] ©2020 1 online resource (190 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Bioethics. Feminism. Health services accessibility. Medical ethics. Transgender people Health and hygiene. Transgender people Medical care. Women Health and hygiene. Women's health services. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Medicine, feminism, healthcare, intersectionality, intersectional feminism, queer theory, crip theory, medical interventions, inequality, systems of oppression, sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments, sexual dissatisfaction weight loss interventions, systemic inequality, patient suffering, social justice, race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, feminist bioethics, feminist theory, disability studies, gender studies, disability theory, policymakers, feminist medicine, feminist health, disability medicine, disability health, feminist disability, queer medicine, queer health, gender medicine, gender health. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690330 https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978806634 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806634 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978806634/original |
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