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Queering Health: Critical Challenges to Normative Health and Healthcare
Laetitia Zeeman (Ed.)
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Description for Queering Health: Critical Challenges to Normative Health and Healthcare
Paperback. Queering Health will explore queer theory in the context of health and contemporary healthcare. From its original location as critique in the politics of sexuality, queer theory principles can usefully be extrapolated to inform contestations of other forms of normative and oppressive identity practices and the dynamics of exclusion. Editor(s): Zeeman, Dr. Laetitia; Aranda, Dr. Kay; Grant, Dr. Alec. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JMG; MBPK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
This book uncovers normative assumptions, practices and discourses as central to the production of difference which manifests as gender and sexual inequality and other forms of disadvantage and discrimination in health and healthcare. The strength of these perspectives is in critiquing the increasing power of biomedical sciences in order to contest the hegemony of unexamined healthcare assumptions that deny difference and thereby sustain inequality. These queer and critical theories trouble neoliberal healthcare economics and biomedical scientific norms that operate in every sphere of healthcare, providing a range of radical tools to destabilise, deconstruct or reimagine binaries, discourses, normative categories or ... Read more
This book uncovers normative assumptions, practices and discourses as central to the production of difference which manifests as gender and sexual inequality and other forms of disadvantage and discrimination in health and healthcare. The strength of these perspectives is in critiquing the increasing power of biomedical sciences in order to contest the hegemony of unexamined healthcare assumptions that deny difference and thereby sustain inequality. These queer and critical theories trouble neoliberal healthcare economics and biomedical scientific norms that operate in every sphere of healthcare, providing a range of radical tools to destabilise, deconstruct or reimagine binaries, discourses, normative categories or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
PCCS Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906254711
SKU
V9781906254711
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99-15
About Laetitia Zeeman (Ed.)
Dr Laetitia Zeeman has a clinical and academic background in mental health, narrative therapy and clinical governance, gained in South Africa and England. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Science at the University of Brighton. Kay Aranda is a Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Applied Social Science at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Queering Health: Critical Challenges to Normative Health and Healthcare
This engaging, troubling, and beautifully-written book dives into the assumptions and paradoxes that shape our experiences of health care. It challenges systems of classification that attempt to reduce human complexity to a label by recognizing the fluid, hybrid nature of contemporary identities. Thus, it expands our understanding of queer theory and queer practice that aims to "undo normativity". The integration ... Read more