Intersexuality and sexual rights in southern Brazil
| Autor: | Paula Xavier Machado |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Health (social science) Human rights Adrenal Hyperplasia Congenital Human Rights media_common.quotation_subject Field (Bourdieu) Decision Making Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Disorders of Sex Development Infant Newborn Gender studies Bioethics Androgen-Insensitivity Syndrome Teaching hospital Interviews as Topic Negotiation Humans Female Sociology Genitalia Hospitals Teaching Brazil media_common |
| Zdroj: | Culture, healthsexuality. 11(3) |
| ISSN: | 1464-5351 |
| Popis: | This paper reports of the socio‐medical management of intersexuality in a teaching hospital in southern Brazil. Findings reveal that the ‘search for sex’ in the body treats sex as a medical‐diagnostic category constructed during decision‐making negotiations. In the course of the various bodily ‘regulations’ and ‘corrections’ imposed, the insufficiency of a model in which categories are based around a sexual dichotomy is revealed. By questioning this dichotomy, it is possible to examine theoretical and ethical limits circumscribing the field of bioethics and the notion of sexual rights as human rights. The paper also explores the tensions that can arise from the application of sexual rights to health issues in general, and the medical sphere in particular. |
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