1st Edition
Smearing the Queer Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men
By Michael Scarce
Copyright 1999
216 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Discover how gay men’s health care can be improved! Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often act as a detriment to gay men’s health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and in medical care while broadening approaches to gay male wellness beyond the... Read more
Contents
Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fucking with Technology
- Section I: Smear as Defamation
- Dr. Kazal’s Ace in the Hole
- Chapter 1. Harbinger of Plague: A Bad Case of Gay Bowel Syndrome
- Gaying the Bowel
- Siting the Bowel
- Speaking in Syndromes
- Dual Diagnoses
- Prevention
- In the Bowels of the Other
- AIDS and Gay Bowel Syndrome: Causation, Correlation, and Conflation
- The Homosexual Menace: Gay Bowel Syndrome As Grounds for Antigay Discrimination
- Conclusions
- Section II: Smearing to Spread a Wet Substance
- The Plumber’s Applause
- Chapter 2. Gay Men and the Female Condom: Is Rectal Reality Getting A Bum Wrap?
- Historical Reality
- Sexual Governance
- Feminizing Safer Sex Technology
- Instructing the Anus
- Queering Reality
- The San Francisco Controversy
- The Appropriateness of Appropriation
- Threadbare Back
- Chapter 3. Condomless Condoms: The Politics and Prospects of Rectal Microbicides
- The Need for Rectal Harm Reduction
- Rectal Microbicide Research and Development
- Gendered and Anatomical Comparisions
- Types of Microbicides
- Prospective Politics
- Left to Our Own Devices
- Section III: The Smear for Microscopic Examination
- A Recipe for Rectal Tarts (or, Just Add Feces and Stir)
- Chapter 4. Queering the Smear: A Detective Named Pap
- Carcinogenic Homosexuality
- Smearing the Anus
- Behind the Screen
- Comparative Sex
- Negotiating the Smear
- Adviser
- Chapter 5. Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Viagra Use Among Gay Men
- Recreational Erections
- Sex as a Class Act
- Criminal Aids and Criminal AIDS
- Conversion Therapy: Bottoms Become Tops
- How Hard is Hard Enough
- Real Men Don’t Need Viagra
- Section IV: Clearing The Smear
- Immaculate Infection
- Chapter 6. Heterocopulative Syndrome: Clinico-Pathologic Correlation in 260 Classes
- Problem and Literature Review
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Smear-Resistant Strategies
- Notes
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Scarce, Michael
