HLTH 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Endocrinology, Heterosexuality, Yoruba People
20 Apr 2016
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How do biomedical discourses construct truths surrounding sexual difference> The motive for their [doctors"] conversion [of intersex infants] was genuinely humanitarian: a wish to enable individuals to fit in and to function both physically and psychologically as healthy human beings. But behind the wish lay unexamined assumptions: first, that there should be only two sexes; second, that only heterosexuality was normal; and third, that particular gender roles defined the psychologically healthy man and woman. These same assumptions continue to provide the rationale for the modern medical management"" of intersexual births. How do biomedical discourses shape bodies: research. Scientific research does not happen in a vacuum how we see, how we know, how we talk, etc. all entangled in ideas re: gender and sexuality. Biologists aren"t the only ones who research gender (e. g. psychologists, anthropologists, feminists, etc. ) Ways to challenge the politics of science: weighting qualitative research more heavy.
