Date: Saturday, August 8

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 044: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance of Gender and Sex
Room: Melville

Sponsors: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Ronald E. Bulanda, Miami University

Description: 

This session focuses on the ways gender and sex have been medicalized and how medicalization and surveillance enact and enforce inequalities. In this critical dialogue, presenters engage attendees in a discussion of how institutions function as systems of control and consider ways we might reimagine these structures.

Papers:

“A Theoretical Evaluation of the Minority Stress Model: A Nursing Perspective,” John A. Fuller, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University

“‘Connected to Both Places’: How Community-Building Shapes the Mental Health Care Experiences of Transgender Adolescents and Young Adults,” Emily A. Flesher and Meredith G. F. Worthen, The University of Oklahoma

“Exploring the Healthcare Experiences of Intersex Individuals in the United States,” Ridwan Islam Sifat, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

“In the Name of Fair Play: The Sport of Policing Gender and Sex in Women’s Athletic Competitions,” Kathryn Henne, Australian National University

“Investigating the Medical Cistem: Researcher Positionality as Resource and Vulnerability,” Jennifer Hites-Thomas, SUNY Oswego

“The Structural–Relational Ecosystem of Inequity (SREI): An Intersectionality-Informed Model of Harm in Health and Social Service Systems,” Dejamarie Crozier, Howard University; An Insightful Journey and Rita Jacobs, Howard University 

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