Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine.
This article analyzes how trans health was negotiated on the margins of psychiatry from the late 1970s and early 1980s. In this period, a new model of medical transition was established for trans people in Norway. Psychiatrists and other medical doctors as well as psychologists and social workers wi...
| Publicado en: | Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 456 - 479 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2021
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