Publications

Publication details [#44726]

Speer, Susan A. and Ceri Parsons. 2006. Gatekeeping gender: some features of the use of hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients. Discourse & Society 17 (6) : 785–812.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | gatekeeping encounter | gender | psychiatric disturbance | question

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines psychiatrist-patient interactions in the distinctive institutional context of a UK NHS Gender Identity Clinic, focusing on various interactional characteristics of the psychiatrists' renowned gatekeeping role.