Book contents
- Bioethics in Action
- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- Bioethics in Action
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 More than Words
- 2 “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Pfizer”
- 3 “So What?”
- 4 Twenty Years of Working toward Intersex Rights
- 5 Working with Public Citizen
- 6 Reproductive Technology’s Legacy of Omission
- 7 Establishing Pediatric Palliative Care
- 8 History and Philosophy of Science Engaging the Public
- 9 The Flint Water Crisis
- Index
- Series page
4 - Twenty Years of Working toward Intersex Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2018
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Book contents
- Bioethics in Action
- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- Bioethics in Action
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 More than Words
- 2 “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Pfizer”
- 3 “So What?”
- 4 Twenty Years of Working toward Intersex Rights
- 5 Working with Public Citizen
- 6 Reproductive Technology’s Legacy of Omission
- 7 Establishing Pediatric Palliative Care
- 8 History and Philosophy of Science Engaging the Public
- 9 The Flint Water Crisis
- Index
- Series page
Summary
This chapter tracks the author’s work as an historian of medicine working in and with the intersex patient rights movement for about twenty years. It explores the techniques used by intersex rights advocates and activists and tries to parse out why so little change has occurred in the medical realm for children born with intersex conditions. The article provides an introduction to the biology and politics of intersex and considers what seems to work and not work when it comes to trying to change an entrenched medical practice. The author also explores the issue of working in and for an identity-based rights movement when one does not have that identity.
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- Bioethics in Action , pp. 55 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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