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Knowledge legitimacy: how trans-patient behavior supports and challenges current medical knowledge
1Concordia University-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Qualitative Health Research
|October 4, 2008
Summary
Transgender patients navigate medical encounters by internalizing societal views, influencing their behavior. They strategically prepare to gain credibility and access care, both supporting and challenging medical knowledge.
Area of Science:
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Medical Anthropology
- Gender Studies
Background:
- Transgender individuals often face unique challenges within healthcare systems.
- Societal ideologies can significantly impact patient-provider interactions and treatment outcomes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how transgender patients perceive and navigate their medical experiences.
- To understand the influence of external ideologies on transgender patients' healthcare interactions.
- To examine how transgender patients strategize to receive desired medical treatments.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative research employing 22 in-depth interviews with transgender patients.
- One year of participant observation within three transgender organizations in the Midwestern United States.
Main Results:
- Transgender patients become aware of political, religious, and cultural ideologies through medical encounters.
- Patients internalize these ideologies, shaping their understanding of treatment and future medical behaviors.
- Patients proactively prepare communication strategies to enhance credibility and avoid stigma when interacting with medical professionals.
Conclusions:
- Transgender patients' medical experiences are shaped by broader societal contexts.
- Patients' strategic engagement with medical professionals demonstrates agency in navigating healthcare.
- Transgender patients both reinforce and contest existing medical knowledge and practices through their interactions.
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