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

di Christoph Hanssmann (Autore)

University of Minnesota Press, 2023

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 activists have taken on the project of depathologization.   In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how trans- activists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization.   Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care.

• Autore: Christoph Hanssmann
• Editore: University of Minnesota Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 397 gr.
• EAN: 9781517913410

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