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

Published Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) : illustrations Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. 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 Summary An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Drug abuse -- Social aspects. Pleasure. Drugs and sex. Gay people -- Drug use Drugs of abuse. Lifestyles. Substance-Related Disorders -- psychology Drug Users -- psychology Homosexuality, Male -- psychology Illicit Drugs Life Style Sexual Behavior -- psychology POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. MEDICAL -- Public Health. Lifestyles Drugs of abuse Drug abuse -- Social aspects Drugs and sex Pleasure Drogenmissbrauch Bekämpfung Dogmatismus Drogenkonsum Vergnügen Gesundheitsgefährdung Gay men and AIDS. Narkotikamissbruk -- sociala aspekter. Homosexuella -- drogvanor -- Förenta Staterna. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822390886 0822390884 9786613064912 6613064912

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