HHV Speaker Series: Dr. Eric Plemons

An Anthropologist Studies Sex, Gender, and Surgery

 

In this short talk, Dr. Eric Plemons will introduce his research as a medical anthropologist studying the politics and practice of sex and gender altering surgery. Through work with specialist clinicians and the people who seek their services, he studies the role of surgical medicine in materializing contested concepts of sex, gender, and transgender. He'll talk about his work on facial feminization surgery, surgical capacity for transgender genital reconstruction, and his current book project on uterine transplant.