The anthropologist, the doctors and the transgender experience: an interview with Laurence Hérault

Abstract

Laurence Hérault is an anthropologist and specialist on the transgender experience. She is an Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille University and a member of IDEMEC, the research center of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme. Her research has led her to carry out observations of transgender persons and hospital doctors. Clio asked to interview her regarding the circulation of medical knowledge and the impact of theoretical debates within the triangle formed by the anthropologis...