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Care without Pathology
2023
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 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.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
ISBN
9781517913410, 1517913411, 1452970297, 9781452970295
