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Pleasure consuming medicine : the queer politics of drugs / Kane Race.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Race, Kane.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug abuse--Social aspects.
- Drug abuse.
- Pleasure.
- Drugs and sex.
- Gay people--Drug use.
- Gay people.
- Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities.
- LGBTQ+ people who use substances recreationally.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064912
- 9781283064910
- 128306491X
- 9780822390886
- 0822390884
- OCLC:
- 456471256
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