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Author: Elizabeth Reis
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801891558
Category: Medical

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Download Bodies in Doubt medical books for free.
Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day. From the beginning, intersex bodies have been marked as "other," as monstrous, sinister, threatening, inferior, and unfortunate. Some nineteenth-century doctors viewed their intersex patients with disrespect and suspicion. Later, doctors showed more empathy for their patients' plights and tried to make correct decisions regarding their care. Yet definitions of "correct" in matters of intersex were entangled with shif Get Bodies in Doubt our bestseller medical books.

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Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day. From the beginning, intersex bodies have been marked as "other," as monstrous, sinister, threatening, inferior, and unfortunate. Some nineteenth-century doctors viewed their intersex patients with disrespect and suspicion Yet definitions of "correct" in matters of intersex were entangled with shif

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