The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Gender Reassignment Surgeries: Unjust Discrimination or Responsible Care?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1177-1183

  Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Giordano, Simona ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender dysphoria; Gender reassignment surgeries; Medical ethics; Mental health professional; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX REASSIGNMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ETHICS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84922074754     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: 14325241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-014-0409-0     Document Type: Letter

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