In Smearing the Queer, you will discover topics on gay men's health that have been relatively unexamined outside the context of medical publications and infrequent mentionings in some popular media. This book draws attention to a number of gay men's health issues to not only alert the gay community to their possible benefit or harm, but to challenge the widespread neglect in pursuing their scientific, political, and cultural importance.
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"Challenges the common habit of assuming biomedical science is beyond the influence of social and cultural phenomen. Provocative, instructive, and politicized, this book analyzes gay male sexual health using methods that range from postmodern critique to tawdry limericks . . . Scarce revels in the intellectual perversity of debunking heterosexism in the health sciences." -- Jennifer Terry, Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, author, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and Homosexuality in Modern Society
"Smearing the Queer is just what the doctor ordered -- or should. A work of subtle analysis and great originality, this display of what's antigay in the health sciences manages also to be funny, sexy, moving, and above all, necessary to guide the future of gay men's health. Scarce is a visionary." -- Walter Armstrong, Editor-in-Chief, POZ magazine
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