Alyssa Lynne-Joseph, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, presented “Between the Local and the Global: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Care” at Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) on Sept. 6, 2025.
Description: Dr. Lynne-Joseph presented her research on the process of creating a set of Thai-specific clinical practice guidelines as part of a panel titled “Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology-Focused Approach.” The panel considered how the use of different tools and technologies in medicine transforms our social understanding of health and illness. Her research found that even as clinicians, patients, and activists sought to create a set of guidelines they envisioned as “local,” they simultaneously grappled with the possible reverberations of these guidelines in the global sphere, revealing the close intertwining of these geographic scales.