DSD is a perfectly fine term: Reasserting medical authority through a shift in intersex terminology

Advances in Medical Sociology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages 155-182

  Davis, Georgiann ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Diagnostic terminology; Disorders of sex development (DSD); Intersex rights movement; Intersexuality; Medical authority

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864792036     PISSN: 10576290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1057-6290(2011)0000012012     Document Type: Article

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