Care without Pathology
How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine
- 401 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Care without Pathology: Coordinating Depathologization
- Chapter 2. Unruly Terms: Negotiating Trans- Diagnoses
- Chapter 3. Epidemiological Rage: Population, Biography, and State Responsibility in Trans- Health Activism
- Chapter 4. Saving Lives, Saving Money: Investing in Trans- Lives
- Chapter 5. Crashing the Gate: Consent-Driven Care and Self-Determination
- Chapter 6. Extending Depathologization: The Coalitional Approach
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author