Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health (eBook)

This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies in order to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this volume historicize and theorize diagnosis, particularly diagnosis that impacts trans health and sexuality, queer health and identity, and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The chapters also address racialization, disability, and colonialism through discussions of fiction, film, critical memoir, and comics in relation to biomedical discourse and knowledge.


Rebecca Garden, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Executive Director for the Consortium for Culture and Medicine. She brings health humanities and disability studies perspectives to bear on healthcare and public health pedagogy and practice, focusing on disability, chronic illness, and aging, as well as racism and immigration. She has published in New Literary History, Literature and Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Disability Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and the Journal of Medical Humanities, as well as in the volumes The Encyclopedia of Health Humanities, Keywords in Disability Studies, and The Health Humanities Reader.