"I Could See Little Bits of How I Progressed": Coordinating Rhythms in a Midwest Gender-affirming Health Clinic.
U.S. health care
bodily agency
bureaucracy
temporality
transgender health
Journal
Medical anthropology quarterly
ISSN: 0745-5194
Titre abrégé: Med Anthropol Q
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8405037
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2021
09 2021
Historique:
revised:
15
06
2021
received:
02
09
2020
accepted:
23
06
2021
pubmed:
23
7
2021
medline:
12
10
2021
entrez:
22
7
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This article examines how staff and patients worked to reconcile the rhythms of the body with those of gender-normative health care bureaucracy in a U.S. Midwest gender-affirming health clinic. Drawing from observations of clinical appointments and routine bureaucratic practice, as well as debriefing interviews with transgender and gender-expansive patients, this article applies Laura Bear's theory of "time-maps" and a new materialist approach to bodily agency that recognizes the variability of the body's responses to gender-affirming health care. This evidence demonstrates how health care staff and patients' labor practices structured patients' abilities to embody their plans for medical transition. Anticipating the varied trajectories bodies take during medical transition can interrupt the reproduction of harmful cultural assumptions about sex difference in U.S. health care bureaucracy.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
402-417Informations de copyright
© 2021 by the American Anthropological Association.
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