Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Karkazis, Katrina
• Feder, Ellen K

Titel

The art of medicine: Naming the problem: disorders and their meanings

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2008-12, Vol.372 (9655), p.2016

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At first glance this controversy over naming might seem to be an esoteric debate of limited interest to those outside the field, but the conflict concerning the stigma associated with the term "intersex" and now "disorder" has much greater implications with respect to the meanings attached to medical conditions and the contribution of these meanings to a patient's suffering. The name is furthermore objectionable to many beyond the English-speaking world because it is not possible in some languages to make a distinction between sex development as a biological process, and sexual development as an affective process involving matters such as gender identity and sexual orientation, leaving the impression that an intersex condition renders "disordered" a person's sexual development in its entirety.\n In its early years, HIV/AIDS was thought to be a disease that chiefly affected gay men and nomenclature reflected that understanding.