PM PRESS
BODIES AND BARRIERS : QUEERS ACTIVISTS ON HEALTH - 240 pages
LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, yet many are still grappling to understand the health care challenges leading LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, ans fellow activists about these challenges, poviding insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health.
Through artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists, this book illuminates the ubiquitous health challenges LGBT people experience and challenge conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of these disparities and empowers activists with crucial informations to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes.
The activist contributors in Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements, drawing lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in America and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination.