ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the normative assumptions about bodies, gender, and wellness that circulate within biomedical discourses on the well-woman visit and materialize in the visit’s served and underserved populations. This chapter argues that the boundary between served populations, or those that emerge as normal, and underserved populations, or those that emerge as excess, is rooted in logics of eugenics. Making apparent the logics of eugenics that structure the well-woman visit is necessary for health practitioners and advocates to promote inclusive practices and platforms that move away from assumptions of sameness and toward an ethic of embodied difference.
