Laetitia Zeeman

Laetitia Zeeman

Dr Laetitia Zeeman has a clinical and academic background in mental health, narrative therapy and clinical governance, gained in South Africa and England. This exposure acts as foundation to her current teaching, scholarly activities and research as a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Science at the University of Brighton. She is interested in developing knowledge and practices that question dominant discourses of health and recognise the strengths and abilities of people when they face adversity, or have gained experience of mental health problems. Her research explores the interface between gender, sexuality and mental health via critical discourse analysis and narrative inquiry.

 

Books by Laetitia Zeeman

Queering Health: Critical challenges to normative health and healthcare

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This book uncovers normative assumptions, practices and discourses as central to the production of difference which manifests as gender and sexual inequality and other forms of disadvantage and discrimination in health and healthcare. The strength of these perspectives is in critiquing the increasing power of biomedical sciences in order to contest the hegemony of unexamined healthcare assumptions that deny difference…