Smearing the queer : medical bias in the health care of gay men /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harrington Park Press, Haworth Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | Haworth gay & lesbian studies.
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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?