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This introduction provides an overview to a special issue on Critical Healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary studies to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this issue historicize and theorize diagnosis, particularly diagnosis that impacts trans health and sexuality, homosexuality, and HIV/AIDS transmission. The essays also address racialization, disability, and colonialism through discussions of fiction, film, theoretical memoir, and comics, as well as biomedical discourse and knowledge.
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Garden, R. (2023). Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities. In: Garden, R., Spurlin, W.J. (eds) Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29677-2_1
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