Eric D Plemons

Interests

Research

Sex, gender and medicine; transgender medicine; surgical practice; organ transplant; medical history; clinical ethnography

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Plemons, E. D. (2017). The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine. Duke University Press.

Chapters

• Plemons, E. D. (2021). Genital Aesthetics. In The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics(pp 229-237). New York: Routledge.
• Plemons, E. D., & Berli, J. (2020). Societal Aspects of Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery. In Gender Confirmation Surgery--Principles and Techniques for an Emerging Field(pp 91-97). New York: Springer.
• Plemons, E. D. (2019).

  Reconceiving the body : A surgical genealogy of trans- therapeutics

  . In The Emergence of Trans(pp 34-45). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315145815-4
• Plemons, E. D. (2010). Envisioning the Body in Relation: finding sex, changing sex. In The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings(pp 317-328). New York, NY: New York University Press.

Journals/Publications

• Plemons, E. D., & Vieira Silva do Rego, C. (2021). Anthropology in the Face of the Contemporary. Vivencia: Revista de Antropologia.
• Plemons, E. (2021).

  Barry Reay, Trans America: A Counter-History

  . Social History of Medicine, 34(1), 339-340. doi:10.1093/shm/hkaa085
• Plemons, E. D., Tallman, S., & Kincer, C. (2021). Centering Transgender Individuals in Forensic Anthropology and Expanding Binary Sex Estimation in Casework and Research. Forensic Anthropology.
• Plemons, E. D. (2020). Trans America: A Counter-History by Barry Reay. Social History of Medicine. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa085
• Plemons, E. (2019).

  Can a Transgender Body Be the Body of the Nation

  . Anthropology News, 60(1). doi:10.1111/an.1076
• Plemons, E. (2019).

  Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment: Interrogating Classification in Facial Feminization Surgery:

  . Body & Society, 25(1), 3-28. doi:10.1177/1357034x18812942
  More info

  Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue procedures intended to feminize the faces of transgender women. In the surgical evaluation, particular facial features are identif...
• Plemons, E. (2019).

  Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity. Arlene Stein, New York: Pantheon Books, 2018, 339 pp.

  . Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 33(4). doi:10.1111/maq.12509
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  book review
• Plemons, E. D. (2019). A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. doi:10.1111/maq.12484
• Plemons, E. D. (2019). Not Here: Catholic Healthcare Systems and the Refusal of Transgender Care in the United States. Cross Currents.
• Plemons, E. (2018).

  HHS Transgender Proposal a Shabby Costume

  . Anthropology News, 59(6). doi:10.1111/an.1020
• Straayer, C. (2018). Introduction: Reframing the Surgical. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 5(2), 164-173. doi:10.1215/23289252-4348605
• Straayer, C. (2018). TSQ: The Surgery Issue. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 5(2), 161-294.
• Berli, J. U., Capitán, L., Simon, D., Bluebond-Langner, R., Plemons, E., & Morrison, S. D. (2017). Facial gender confirmation surgery—review of the literature and recommendations for Version 8 of the WPATHStandards of Care. International Journal of Transgenderism, 18(3), 264-270. doi:10.1080/15532739.2017.1302862
• Plemons, E. (2017).

  Transforming Transgender Medicine in the US Prompts Questions of its Aims

  . Anthropology News, 58(4), e378-e381. doi:10.1111/an.591
• Plemons, E. (2017). Formations of Femininity: Science and Aesthetics in Facial Feminization Surgery. Medical Anthropology, 36(7), 629-641. doi:10.1080/01459740.2017.1298593
• Plemons, E. D. (2017). Formations of Femininity: Science and Aesthetics of Facial Feminization Surgery. Medical Anthropology, 36(7), 629-641. doi:10.1080/01459740.2017.1298593
• Plemons, E. D., Capitan, L., Berli, J. U., Simon, D., Morrison, S. D., & Bluebong-Langner, R. (2017). Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery: Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Version 8 of the WPATH Standards of Care. International Journal of Transgenderism, 18(3), 264-270. doi:10.1080/15532739.2017.1302862
• Plemons, E. D. (2015). Anatomical Authorities: On the epistemological exclusion of trans- surgical patients. Medical Anthropology, 34(5), 425-441.
• Plemons, E. D. (2014). Description of Sex Difference as Prescription for Sex Change: On the Origin of Facial Feminization Surgery. Social Studies of Science, 44(5), 657-679.
• Plemons, E. D. (2014). It Is As It Does: Genital Form and Function in Sex Reassignment Surgery. Journal of Medical Humanities, 35(1), 37-55.
• Plemons, E. D. (2013). The Surgical Suite. Journal of Medical Humanities, 34(2), 245-247.