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Subject matter of growing presence and interest. Multidisciplinary
approach. Case study of Denmark, the first European state to adopt
self-declaration. Will appeal to researchers and practitioners
working in trans, gender, feminist legal, and socio-legal studies.
This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to
consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the
body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been
animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are
disordered, diseased, or disabled - but each of these
classificatory regimes claim some knowledge about the body. This
edited collection aims to uncover and challenge the fundamental
assumptions that underpin medico-legal knowledge claims about such
bodies. This exploration is achieved through a mix of perspectives,
but many contributors look towards embodiment as a perspective that
understands bodies to be shaped by their institutional contexts.
Much of this work alerts us to the idea that medical practitioners
not only respond to healthcare issues, but also create them through
their own understandings of 'normality' and 'fixing'. Bodies, as a
result, cannot be understood outside of, or as separate to, their
medical and legal contexts. This compelling book pushes the
possibility of new directions in health care and health justice.
Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to
consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the
body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been
animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are
disordered, diseased, or disabled - but each of these
classificatory regimes claim some knowledge about the body. This
edited collection aims to uncover and challenge the fundamental
assumptions that underpin medico-legal knowledge claims about such
bodies. This exploration is achieved through a mix of perspectives,
but many contributors look towards embodiment as a perspective that
understands bodies to be shaped by their institutional contexts.
Much of this work alerts us to the idea that medical practitioners
not only respond to healthcare issues, but also create them through
their own understandings of 'normality' and 'fixing'. Bodies, as a
result, cannot be understood outside of, or as separate to, their
medical and legal contexts. This compelling book pushes the
possibility of new directions in health care and health justice.
Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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