Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men [Library Binding]

John Dececco Phd (Author), Michael Scarce (Author)

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Library Binding: 222 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Aug 4 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789004100
ISBN-13: 978-0789004109
Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

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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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"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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A vital examination of the failure of healthcare for gay men, Aug 4 1999

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Scarce's book resonates deeply as a gay man who consistently finds himself on the short end of the cultural, religious, governmental, and medical sticks. From anal cancer to rectal microbicides to the atypical inclusion of poetry in a medical tome, this book is unique and important. Without Michael Scarce and the work he has uncovered, gay men would have little enlightenment about male on male rape, barebacking, anal pap smears, and the profound discovery of the heterosexual copulative disease. Buy this book. Of course, I haven't bought it yet...I'm still waiting on my free copy.

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