Homophobia and the moral authority of medicine.

摘要: This essay identifies ways in which medicine expresses and legitimizes homophobic values. Examples of such homophobia are identified the treatment people with HIV, moralistic interpretations AIDS, certain conceptions about HIV is transmitted, media representations even way medicine's "objectivity" reinforces a moral view inimical to gay men, lesbians, bisexuals. It concluded that notion medical objectivity traditional ethics health care hinder an appreciation presumes perpetuates