2022/07/26
2023年著作
李柏翰老師: Underrepresentation or Overexposure: Queer Ambivalence to the Global Healthification of Injustice

臺大公衛學院為加強宣導本院教師之學術成果,進而提升本院國際能見度,由李柏翰老師之撰寫以下列文章投稿至ASPPH Friday Letter.

 

 

該文目前已刊登於 ASPPH Friday Letter, October 21, 2022

 

篇名:

Underrepresentation or Overexposure: Queer Ambivalence to the Global Healthification of Injustice

 

 

 

本所李柏翰老師為第一作者兼通訊作者

Abstract

In an era when the right to health has refashioned global health policymaking, how has global health addressed LGBT health disparities? To identify the ways in which institutional and epistemological apparatuses of global health policymaking have made LGBT health concerns “scientifically” ignorable, this chapter begins with an analysis of a related debate at the World Health Organization (WHO) that took place between 2013 and 2016, when the issue was “closeted” again. Reviewing this debate and drawing on the interactions between international organizations and queer activists in Asia enables us to critically understand state-centered LGBT health politics. Queer activists from this region have been concerned about representation issues related to LGBT health issues – either being underrepresented or being overexposed by mainstream media and national policies.

This chapter considers such ambivalence toward “global healthification,” to extend Meyer and Schwartz’ (American Journal of Public Health, 90(8), 1189–1191, 2000) concerns about the public healthification of social injustice issues. Reframing discrimination and marginalization against LGBT people as a public/global health issue is potentially helpful to draw the attention of scientific and epidemiological researchers; it may also harm queer people at the local level due to the power to define diseases and determine control measures held in the hands of the states. Through presenting the ambivalence toward the global healthifying of social injustices against LGBT people, this chapter argues that global health policy studies should broaden the understanding of the social and political determinants of health and recognize sexual and gender diversity as a precondition of global health justice.