Eric Plemons

External Faculty Fellow
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

Eric Plemons is a medical anthropologist focused on the politics and practice of transgender medicine and surgery. Primarily focused in the United States, he has also conducted ethnographic research in surgical clinics in Northern Europe and South America. Before joining the University of Arizona, Plemons was a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows.

SHC Project

What To Make of Me: Transplant Medicine and the History and Future of Sex

Publications and Projects

My book, The Look of a Woman

An article on building surgical capacity for trans genital reconstruction

An article on the impact of Catholic hospital ownership on access to trans medicine

An article on the work of race and ethnicity in facial feminization surgery

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