Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine

by Christoph Hanssmann

Book Overview

Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape

Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517913411
• ISBN13: 9781517913410
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"