Sexualizing Governance and Medicalizing Identities: The Emergence of ‘State-Centered’ LGBT Health Politics in the United States

Sexualities

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-171

  Epstein, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

health activism; health policy; LGBT health; medicalization; the state

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844497520     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460703006002001     Document Type: Article

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