PDF-[DOWNLOAD]-Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (Biopolitics Book 10)

When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes marking her as intersex Rather than share this information with her they withheld the diagnosis in order to protect the development of her gender identity it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth Davis experience is not unusual Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the malefemale sex binary which have historically led to secrecy and shame about being intersex Yet the rise of intersex activism and visibility in the US has called into question the practice of classifying intersex as an abnormality rather than as a mere biological variation This shift in thinking has the potential to transform entrenched intersex medical treatmentIn Contesting Intersex Davis draws on interviews with intersex people their parents and medical experts to explore the oftquestioned views on intersex in medical and activist communities as well as the evolution of thought in regards to intersex visibility and transparency She finds that framing intersex as an abnormality is harmful and can alter the course of ones life In fact controversy over this framing continues as intersex has been renamed a disorder of sex development throughout medicine This happened she suggests as a means for doctors to reassert their authority over the intersex body in the face of increasing intersex activism in the 1990s and feminist critiques of intersex medical treatment Davis argues the renaming of intersex as a disorder of sex development is strong evidence that the intersex diagnosis is dubious Within the intersex community though disorder of sex development terminology is hotly disputed some prefer not to use a term which pathologizes their bodies while others prefer to think of intersex in scientific terms Although terminology is currently a source of tension within the movement Davis hopes intersex activists and their allies can come together to improve the lives of intersex people their families and future generations However for this to happen the intersex diagnosis as well as sex gender and sexuality needs to be understood as socially constructed phenomena A personal journey into medical and social activism Contesting Intersex presents a unique perspective on how medical diagnoses can affect lives profoundly. questionable. syn. : skeptical; cynical. ant: certain; cocky; gullible; inevitable. Forms: N: doubt. V: doubt, doubts, doubted, doubting. Adj. : dubious Adv: dubiously. dubious. The Hunger Games. Dr Susannah Cornwall. University of Exeter and . South West Ministry Training Course. Intersex: An Introduction. Physical difference from male or female. Sometimes involves unusual genitalia. Sometimes involves an unusual combination of genitals, gonads, chromosomes, other physical characteristics. What is ‘intersex’?. Umbrella term to . denote . a number different . variations in a person’s bodily . characteristics . that do . not match . strict . (medical) . definitions of . male or . female. Let’s Make Contesting Fun!. Your Instructors. Jeffrey Bail - NT1K - Main Interest In Amateur Radio is contesting. First “contest” was Field Day in 1995. Mostly active during contests, Field Day and DXpeds. Part of multi operator, multi radio events.. Randy Thompson, K5ZD. Discussion of what ethical behavior is in radio contesting. Understand the impact of unethical behavior. Encourage participants to take ownership of their own behavior and encourage others to do the same . lntersex. Premature ovarian insufficiency. Androgen insensitivity syndrome. Turner syndrome. hermaphrodite. Klinefelter . syndrome. Gonadal . dysgensis. Swyer syndrome. Sex reversal. Vanishing testes syndrome. This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It is only by doing so that we can understand why life has become an all-encompassing problem, why all questions, especially ethical and political, have become vital questions. We have reached a moment in history where every distinction and opposition is no longer in relation to life, but within it, and where life is at once a theoretical and practical problem. This book throws light on this nexus of problems at the heart of contemporary debates in bioethics and biopolitics. It helps us understand why and how life is understood, valued, cared for and framed today. Taking a genuinely transdisciplinary approach, these essays demonstrate how life is a multifaceted problem and how diverse the origins, foundations and also consequences of bioethics and biopolitics therefore are. What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day.From the beginning, intersex bodies have been marked as other, as monstrous, sinister, threatening, inferior, and unfortunate. Some nineteenth-century doctors viewed their intersex patients with disrespect and suspicion. Later, doctors showed more empathy for their patients\' plights and tried to make correct decisions regarding their care. Yet definitions of correct in matters of intersex were entangled with shifting ideas and tensions about what was natural and normal, indeed about what constituted personhood or humanity.Reis has examined hundreds of cases of hermaphroditism and intersex found in medical and popular literature and argues that medical practice cannot be understood outside of the broader cultural context in which it is embedded. As the history of responses to intersex bodies has shown, doctors are influenced by social concerns about marriage and heterosexuality. Bodies in Doubt considers how Americans have interpreted and handled ambiguous bodies, how the criteria and the authority for judging bodies changed, how both the binary gender ideal and the anxiety over uncertainty persisted, and how the process for defining the very norms of sex and gender evolved.Bodies in Doubt breaks new ground in examining the historical roots of modern attitudes about intersex in the United States and will interest scholars and researchers in disability studies, social history, gender studies, and the history of medicine. We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politics of visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies--Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch--and to the near invisibility of others--dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and natural disasters.Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically, obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the falling bodies of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique evidence.This book charts the influences at play on the contestation over human remains and examines the construction of this problem from a cultural perspective. It shows that claims on dead bodies are not confined to once colonized groups. A group of British Pagans, Honouring the Ancient Dead, formed to make claims on skeletons from the British Isles, and ancient human remains, bog bodies and Egyptian mummies, which have not been requested by any group, have become the focus of campaigns initiated by members of the profession, at times removed from display in the name of respect.By drawing on empirical research including extensive interviews with the claims-making groups, ethnographic work, document, media, and policy analysis, Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections demonstrates that strong internal influences do in fact exist. The only book to examine the construction of contestation over human remains from a sociological perspective, it advances an emerging area of academic research, setting the terms of debate, synthesizing disparate ideas, and making sense of a broader cultural focus on dead bodies in the contemporary period. Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known--a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and naturalness of this pain has been instrumental in modern science\'s ability to create prosthetic technologies that many feel have transformative, self-actualizing, and even transcendent power. In Phantom Limb, Cassandra S. Crawford critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon.Crawford exposes how the meanings of phantom limb pain have been influenced by developments in prosthetic science and ideas about the extraordinary power of these technologies to liberate and fundamentally alter the human body, mind, and spirit. Through intensive observation at a prosthetic clinic, interviews with key researchers and clinicians, and an analysis of historical and contemporary psychological and medical literature, she examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late-19th to the early-21st century. Crawford interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes in the meaning of limb loss, popular representations of amputees, and corporeal ideology. Phantom Limb questions our most deeply held ideas of what is normal, natural, and even moral about the physical human body. As her little boy plays at a day care centre across the street, Michelle, an unmarried teenager, is in algebra class, hoping to be the first member of her family to graduate from high school. Will motherhood make this young woman poorer? Will it make the United States poorer as a nation? That\'s what the voices raised against babies having babies would have us think, and what many Americans seem inclined to believe. This book takes us behind the stereotypes, the rhetoric, and the media sound bites to show us the complex reality and truths of teenage mothers in America today. Archaeology attempts to answer the question where do we come from? in the broadest sense possible as a result, it is a highly interesting topic for all mankind. When did human beings first walk the earth? How did civilization develop? What compelled our human ancestors to build things like the pyramids, the Great Sphinx, or Monk\'s Mound?This book presents the widely unknown scientific facts behind the most popular and enthralling mysteries of our world from an expert archaeological perspective--and lays out the information and research in a manner that is approachable, engaging, and entertaining for any reader. Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum contains detailed and highly descriptive definitions for--and explanations of--terms related to extraordinary claims about human antiquity and its study. Some of the terms in this extensive list of topics relate to archaeological hoaxes. Many of the entries relate to dubious interpretations of the human past some of the terms relate to far-fetched arguments that actually have produced evidence in support of their veracity. GoalsBy the end of this hour, you will be able to:Appreciate the diversity of intersex traits, and the conditions associated with themDescribe the traditional approach to people with intersex traits a