Queering Health: Critical Challenges to Normative Health and Healthcare - Couverture souple

 
9781906254711: Queering Health: Critical Challenges to Normative Health and Healthcare

Synopsis

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 moral ideals prevalent in the pursuit of health.

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À propos de l?auteur

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 Brighton in the UK. Dr Alec Grant is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Brighton.

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