Eckhert Erik
University of California San Francisco / University of California Berkeley Joint Medical Program.
Yale J Biol Med. 2016 Jun 27;89(2):239-46. eCollection 2016 Jun.
The medicalization of queer bodies in the clinic and the lab is inexorably linked to the history of LBGTQ politics. Increasingly, activists and scholars are recognizing that while the natural origins of queer sexualities carry a certain political weight, invoking the naturalness of being "born this way" fails to articulate a more substantive challenge to the effects of unexamined cis- and heteronormativity on our social institutions. With this in mind, it is crucial to understand the way these biases operate in scientific research and healthcare so their impact on what we know and how we care can be addressed. It what follows, it will be shown that the medicalization of queer bodies not only fails to diminish these deep-seated biases from sexuality research and clinical practice, but that it also impedes care providers from addressing the healthcare disparities facing queer patients today.
诊所和实验室中对酷儿身体的医学化与 LGBTQ 政治的历史有着不可分割的联系。越来越多的活动家和学者认识到，虽然酷儿性取向的自然起源具有一定的政治影响力，但援引“生来如此”的自然性并不能对未经审视的顺性别和异性恋规范对我们社会制度的影响提出更实质性的挑战。考虑到这一点，了解这些偏见在科学研究和医疗保健中的运作方式至关重要，这样才能解决它们对我们所知道的内容以及我们的护理方式的影响。如下所示，酷儿身体的医学化不仅未能减少性取向研究和临床实践中这些根深蒂固的偏见，而且还阻碍了护理人员解决当今酷儿患者面临的医疗保健差异问题。
