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19234791

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-15
pubmed:abstractText
In this paper, I apply Michel Foucault's analysis of normalization to the 2006 announcement by the US and European Endocrinological Societies that variations on the term "hermaphrodite" and "intersex" would be replaced by the term, "Disorders of Sex Development" or DSD. I argue that the change should be understood as normalizing in a positive sense; rather than fighting for the demedicalization of conditions that have significant consequences for individuals' health, this change can promote the transformation of the conceptualization of intersex conditions from "disorders like no other" to "disorders like many others." Understood in these terms, I conclude, medical attention to those with atypical anatomies should be recast from a preoccupation with "normal appearance" to the concern with human flourishing that is the proper object of medical attention.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1065-3058
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
134-43
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Normalizing medicine: between "intersexuals" and individuals with "Disorders of Sex Development".
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Philosophy and Religion, American University, Washington, DC 20016-8056, USA. efeder@american.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't