The Surgical Suite

Eric Plemons

doi:10.1007/s10912-013-9227-7

The Surgical Suite

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Abstract

In this short essay I focus on two ethnographic scenes from the operating room in order to show the OR as a place both assiduously sterile and deeply intimate. In the process of these Facial Feminization Surgery procedures, surgeons and other OR staff reflect on the social changes that the surgery may (or may not) enable even while they are working to enact physical changes in the faces of their patients.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	245-247
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Medical Humanities
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-013-9227-7
State	Published - Jun 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anthropology of medicine
Surgery
Transgender studies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Health Policy

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