Understanding trans health
Subtitle: discourse, power and possibility
By: Ruth Pearce
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781447342335; 9781447342359
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Medical care; Health and hygiene; Transgender people
Description: What does it mean for someone to be 'trans'? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography, offering an innovative look at how shifting language, patient mistrust, waiting lists and professional power shape clinical encounters, and exploring what a better future might look like for trans patients.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. The context of care; title: Introduction: coming to terms with trans health; title: Condition or movement? A genealogy of trans discourse; title: Trans health in practice: conditions of care; title: Part two. Navigating health services; title: (Re)defining trans; title: Trans temporalities: imagining a future in the time of anticipation; title: Part three. Changing trans health; title: The politics of trans health: negotiating credible knowledge; title: Towards affirmative care.