Articulating Intersex: A Crisis at the Intersection of Scientific Facts and Social Ideals

• Main Author: Delimata, Natalie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 131
• Subjects: Bioethics.; Medical ethics.; Human body-Social aspects.; Poststructuralism.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Sociology of the Body.

This book explores the ethical dilemma clinicians may face when disclosing a diagnosis of atypical sex. The moment of disclosure reveals an epistemic incompatibility between scientific fact and social meaning in relation to sex. Attempting to assess the bio-psychosocial implications of this dilemma...