The construction of intersexuality in Costa Rica

From discourse to practice

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https://doi.org/10.24215/24690333e017

Keywords:

health, intersexual, Costa Rica, self-determination

Abstract

The authoress offers an approximation to the attention that the institutions who bring a health service to the people, who when they were born are determinate like intersex. In this case, there are exposing elements from the experience of Costa Rica in the topic; by the which the authoress investigates about the procedures done by Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social, a public institution engaged of the health’s service of the population, to open a debate about the procedures done and make visible the need to stimulate the exercise of self-determination by the intersex population.

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Published

2017-12-29

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Bermúdez Otárola, M. (2017). The construction of intersexuality in Costa Rica: From discourse to practice. Con X, (3), e017. https://doi.org/10.24215/24690333e017

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No. 3 (2017)

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