Smearing the queer : medical bias in the health care of gay men /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarce, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harrington Park Press, Haworth Press, [1999]
Series:Haworth gay & lesbian studies.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Eric Rofes
  • Smear as defamation
  • Dr. Kazal's ace in the hole
  • 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
  • Smearing to spread a wet substance
  • The plumber's applause
  • 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
  • Condomless condoms: the politics and prospects of rectal microbicides
  • The need for rectal harm reduction
  • Rectal microbicide research and development
  • Gendered and anatomical comparisons
  • Types of microbicides
  • Prospective politics
  • Left to our own devices
  • The smear for microscopic examination
  • A recipe for rectal tarts (or, just add feces and stir)
  • Queering the smear: a detective named pap
  • Carcinogenic homosexuality
  • Smearing the anus
  • Behind the screen
  • Comparative sex
  • Negotiating the smear
  • Adviser
  • 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?