Provides a look at how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care in the US since the specialty's inception. Pink and Blue deploys gender - often in concert with class and race - as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern US history.
In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. This volume seeks to understand the dialectical relationship between gender and the medical care of children by combining a historical perspective on gender and pediatrics with analyses of current debates and controversies in pediatric practice such as pediatric transgender medicine, HPV, neonatal intensive care, and more.