Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health

This book provides an overview of critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. It historicizes and theorizes diagnosis, particularly diagnosis that impacts trans health and sexuality, queer health and identity, and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The chapters also address racialization, disability, and colonialism through discussions of fiction, film, critical memoir, and comics in relation to biomedical discourse and knowledge.

Format: Hardback
Length: 68 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive book delves into the realm of critical healing, which harnesses queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies to explore fruitful intersections between the clinical and cultural dimensions of biomedical knowledge and practice. The collection of essays in this volume not only historicizes diagnosis, particularly its impact on trans health and sexuality, queer health and identity, and sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS, but also theorizes it. Moreover, the chapters delve into racialization, disability, and colonialism by examining fiction, film, critical memoir, and comics in relation to biomedical discourse and knowledge.

Previously featured in the Journal of Medical Humanities, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2019, Chapter "Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine" is now accessible open access through a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Weight: 289g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031296765
Edition number: 2nd ed. 2023