Pleasure consuming medicine : the queer politics of drugs /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Race, Kane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Drug abuse > Social aspects.
Pleasure.
Drugs and sex.
Gays > Drug use.
Drugs of abuse.
Lifestyles.
Substance-Related Disorders > psychology
Drug Users > psychology
Homosexuality, Male > psychology
Illicit Drugs
Life Style
Sexual Behavior > psychology
Toxicomanie > Aspect social.
Plaisir.
Drogues et sexualité.
Drogues illicites.
Style de vie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Drogenmissbrauch
Bekämpfung
Dogmatismus
Drogenkonsum
Vergnügen
Gesundheitsgefährdung
Gay men and AIDS.
Narkotikamissbruk > sociala aspekter.
Homosexuella > drogvanor > Förenta Staterna.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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