Stuff I've been reading (September 2025)

By Os Keyes

This fucking year.

Books and dissertations

  • Slagstad, Ketil. Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine. University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Papers and Chapters

  • Billund-Phibbs, Myra. “Psychiatrist, Surgeon, Historian: Authority, Risk, and Mid-century Legacies in the Practice of Trans Oral History.” Australian Feminist Studies (2025): 1-14.
  • Buchbinder, Mara. “Dirty work in medicine: understanding US physicians’ agency in contested medical practices.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 36.4 (2022): 534-551.
  • de Canson, Chloé. “The Epistemic Grounds for Lay Interference in the Conduct of Science.” Philosophy of Science: 1-36.
  • Sideri, Katerina, and Niels Van Dijk. “The techno-politics of computing the mind: Opening the black box of digital psychiatry.” Social Studies of Science 55.3 (2025): 382-403.
  • Zarhin, Dana, et al. ““Medical Cannabis” as a contested medicine: fighting over epistemology and morality.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 45.3 (2020): 488-514.

Fiction

Lots of trashy sci-fi, along with:

  • Seanan McGuire’s new Silver and Lead