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Bodies in Doubt
- An American History of Intersex
Engelsk Paperback
Bodies in Doubt
- An American History of Intersex
Engelsk Paperback

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This renowned history of intersex in America has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. In Bodies in Doubt, Elizabeth Reis traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present. Arguing that medical practice must be understood within its broader cultural context, Reis demonstrates how deeply physicians have been influenced by social anxieties about marriage, heterosexuality, and same-sex desire throughout American history In this second edition, Reis adds two new chapters, a new preface, and a revised introduction to assess recent dramatic shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. Human rights organizations have declared early genital surgeries a form of torture and abuse, but doctors continue to offer surgical "repair," and parents continue to seek it for their children. While many are hearing the human rights call, controversies persist, and Reis explains why best practices in this field remain fiercely contested.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781421441849
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1421441845
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2021
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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