Pleasure consuming medicine : the queer politics of drugs / Kane Race.

  • Race, Kane.
Date:
2009
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.

Physical description

xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pleasure consuming medicine : an introduction -- Prescribing the self -- Recreational states -- Drugs and domesticity : fencing the nation -- Consuming compliance : remembering bodies inhabit pharmaceutical narratives -- Embodiments of safety -- Exceptional sex : how drugs have come to mediate sex in gay discourse.

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    History of Medicine
    FCF /RAC
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ISBN

  • 9780822344889
  • 0822344882
  • 9780822345015
  • 0822345013