Abstract:Medicine is widely considered a site of social power, one that in uences, and is in uenced by, social and cultural norms. As such, medicine is deeply intertwined with societal powers and has complex patriarchal roots, with a history of oppression and underserving marginalised communities. This is compounded by the rise of biomedicalisation in the nineteenth century, which centres the empirical scienti c method, further steering medicine from its foundations in social responsibility.The development of queer the… Show more
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