Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health

This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies in order to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this volume historicize and theorize 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.Previously published in Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 40, issue 1, March 2019Chapter "e;Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine"e; is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies in order to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this volume historicize and theorize 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.

Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities.- Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine.- Choir Boy: Trans Vocal Performance and the De-Pathologization of Transition.- The Banality of Anal: Safer Sexual Erotics in the Gay Men’s Health Crisis’ Safer Sex Comix and Ex Aequo’s Alex et la vie d’après.- Fanon and the New Paraphilias: Towards a Trans of Color Critique of the DSM-V.- Listening to Quackery: Reading John Wesley’s Primitive Physic in an Age of Health Care Reform.- The Role of the Curator in Modern Hospitals: A Transcontinental Perspective.- What Money Cannot Buy and What Money Ought Not Buy: Dignity, Motives, and Markets in Human Organ Procurement Debates.- Authenticity in Anatomy Art.- Tangles that Lead Nowhere.