Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men - Brossura

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9781560239260: Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1560239263 ISBN 13: 9781560239260

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1999

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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 limited scope of HIV infection. This groundbreaking book explore a number of neglected concerns affecting the sexual health of gay men , calling for the recognition of their scientific, political, and cultural significance.

In Smearing the Queer, gay men, HIV prevention workers, health care providers, mental health professionals, policymakers, researchers, and instructors in related fields will appreciate the in-depth examination of such issues as:

research and development on rectal microbicides
why many gay men should be receiving periodic anal Pap smears to screen for anorectal cancer
an in-depth critique of the problematic diagnosis of “Gay Bowel Syndrome”
gay men’s use of the Reality Female Condom for anal sex
Viagara’s impact on gay men’s sexual cultures, erectile dysfunction, and recreational drug use
a broad-based advocacy agenda for improving relations between gay men and the health sciences
the politics surrounding gay men’s restricted access to new and prospective safer sex technologies

Smearing the Queer challenges heterosexist bias within the health care delivery and health sciences research and calls for the development of public policy initiatives that address gay men’s wellness in more sophisticated and complex ways. This is the only publication that provides in-depth social, cultural, and political analysis of the topics of Gay Bowel Syndrome, gay men’s use of the female condom, rectal microbicides, and anal Pap smears while examining the social forces that direct scientific research under the guise of objectivity.

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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