TY  - BOOK
AU  - shuster,stef m
TI  - Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender 
SN  - 9781479845378
AV  - RA564.9.T73 
U1  - 362.1086/7 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Gender-nonconforming people
KW  - Medical care
KW  - United States
KW  - Health services accessibility
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Right to health
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Authority
KW  - Changing Definitions of Gender
KW  - Clinical experience
KW  - Clinical guidelines
KW  - Close followers
KW  - Co-occurring condition
KW  - Collaborative decision making
KW  - Contested medicine
KW  - Credibility
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Diagnostic criteria
KW  - Epistemic clashes
KW  - Evidence based medicine
KW  - Evidence
KW  - Experimental medicine
KW  - Expertise
KW  - False information
KW  - Flexible interpreters
KW  - Gatekeeping
KW  - Gender norms
KW  - Gender
KW  - Gut instinct
KW  - Health inequalities
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Informal Evidence
KW  - Legitimacy
KW  - Medical Sociology
KW  - Medical authority
KW  - Medical decision-making
KW  - Medical decisions
KW  - Non-binary
KW  - Normal sexual behaviour
KW  - Normal
KW  - Patient worthiness
KW  - Quackery
KW  - Redefining gender
KW  - Redefining medicine
KW  - Risk
KW  - Scientific language
KW  - Self-assured experts
KW  - Social fitness
KW  - Spidey sense
KW  - Standardization
KW  - The truly trans
KW  - Tricksters
KW  - Uncertain experts
KW  - Uncertainty
N1  - restricted access
N2  - A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to "treat" gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers' lack of clinical experience and scientific research undermines their ability to interact with patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes, but over gender itself
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479836291
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479836291/original
ER  -