stef m. shuster is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Their work on transgender healthcare has appeared in Gender & Society, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science & Medicine.
Trans Medicine is a brilliant study of how the context of
scientific uncertainty shapes the ways medical professionals work
with trans people. While appreciating the dilemmas facing doctors,
shuster holds them accountable for upholding normative
understandings of gender essentialism. This beautifully rendered
story of medical improvisation and the search for professional
credibility will be of great interest to readers of transgender
studies, medical sociology, and the sociology of knowledge. --
Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking
of Identity
Trans Medicine is original, empirically rich, and
beautifully written. shuster masterfully integrates a wide range of
data with a nuanced theoretical story of power, control, and
medical regulation. This is truly an urgently needed study that is
a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of gender,
sexuality, bodies and embodiment, and healthcare. -- Georgiann
Davis, author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis
A powerful examination of the history and present of medical
providers seeking to 'treat gender.' Demonstrating how uncertainty
unsettles the relationship between expertise, evidence, and
clinical decision-making, Trans Medicine illuminates the
path to a more inclusive, gender-affirming health care system. --
Rene Almeling, author of GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's
Reproductive Health
shuster...expertly documents how the medical field as often failed
trans patients...[Trans Medicine] successfully makes the
case that trans medicine should be part of the medical training of
all physicians...This well-researched book is eminently readable
and, in fact, quite a page-turner. It is an essential story, one
that is not yet complete, as shuster acknowledges. A must-read. *
Library Journal *
Trans Medicine is remarkable for the way in which shuster
captures health care providers speaking and acting with exceptional
candor about what they think and feel about working with trans
populations. -- Danya Lagos - University of California, Berkeley *
American Journal of Sociology *
Overall, shuster's book is an engaging exploration of the histories
of trans medicine with an emphasis on health care administration
and politics...Trans Medicine holds immense value for
medical school and continuing education programs and would promote
fruitful dialog about inclusive, accountable, and just health care
practices. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
Sociologist Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine is a unique
monograph that combines historical analysis with ethnography. *
Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
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