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Medical Entanglements : Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare by Kristina Gupta (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-101978806590
ISBN-139781978806597
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038570350
Product Key Features
Number of Pages190 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMedical Entanglements : Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare
Publication Year2019
SubjectEthics, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Public Health, Health Care Delivery, Health Policy, Disease & Health Issues
TypeTextbook
AuthorKristina Gupta
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight0.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2019-007531
ReviewsMedical Entanglements is required reading for anyone interested in the feminist stakes of biomedical interventions. Provocatively insisting that "medicine isn't special," Gupta reimagines the terrain of sexual pharmaceuticals, gender affirmation procedures, and weight loss technologies, providing fresh insights about how all three can be sites of survival, well-being, and even flourishing. Gupta's writing is clear, her arguments comprehensive, and her suggestions for how we get from A to B are a sensible companion in these urgent times., Modern biomedicine presents us with a growing number of socially and ethically troubling situations, where there is always a temptation to seek a 'right' or 'wrong' solution. In this important book, and with theoretical sophistication and supported by detailed case studies, Gupta shows the most ethical way forward may be acceptance that difficulties are only imperfectly resolvable, entangled as they are in broader systems of injustice. She argues with skill and imagination for a different approach, framed by a different language, to feminist thinking about healthcare.
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.1082
Table Of Content1. 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? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisMedical 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., Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond "for or against" approaches to medicine. Drawing on case studies, the book argues that most medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce inequality and alleviate individual suffering. Thus, the book argues that feminists should allow individuals choice in regards to medical intervention, while working to dismantle systems of oppression., 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.
LC Classification NumberRA564
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