In this talk, Dr. Christoph Hanssmann analyzes how transgender health activists and providers in Buenos Aires and New York City collaborated to develop depathologized models of trans- therapeutic health care. He ethnographically analyzes how activist models of self-determination combined with the tenets of bioethics to bring about "consent-driven care" in clinical practice. Drawing on feminist STS, he details the conflicts and convergences that unfolded in debates about consent-driven care.

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Chris Hanssmann, Ph.D. studies the politics of health, science and medicine, focusing on relationships between biomedicine and social movements. His first book, Care Without Pathology, is a transnational analysis of trans health. Published with University of Minnesota Press,  it examines how activists and care providers define the field and enact care as a public good. He works collaboratively with researchers and activists in feminist, queer and trans feminist health and justice, and has published articles in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Social Science and Medicine.