Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:54:20 -0700
From: Michael Scarce <mscarce@earthlink.net>
Subject: Smearing the Queer: new book on science and gay men's health

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SMEARING THE QUEER: MEDICAL BIAS IN THE HEALTH CARE OF GAY MEN

by Michael Scarce          Now Available

ISBN: 1-56023-926-3   Haworth Press


Smearing the Queer explores how social prejudices embedded in
scientific research and practice often work 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 limiting scope of HIV infection. This
groundbreaking book explores a number of neglected concerns affecting
the sexual health of gay men, calling for the recognition of their
scientific, political, and cultural significance.


Readers will appreciate the in-depth examination of topics such as:

* research and development on rectal microbicides

* why many gay men should be receiving periodic anal Pap smears to
screen for anorectal cancer

* a critique of the problematic medical diagnosis of "Gay Bowel
Syndrome"

* gay men's use of the Reality Female Condom for anal sex

* Viagra'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


Michael Scarce is a doctoral student in medical sociology and former
Coordinator of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resources at
University of California, San Francisco; and former Coordinator of Ohio
State Universty's Rape Education and Prevention Program. Serving as a
national consultant and lecturer on sexual health, he is also the
author of Male on Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame. His
work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Homosexuality,
Journal of American College Health, POZ magazine and Mediphors: A
Literary Journal of the Health Professions.


"Challenges the common habit of assuming biomedical science is beyond
the influence of social and cultural phenomena.  Provocative,
instructive, and politicized, this book analyzes gay male sexual health
using methods that range from postmodern critique to tawdry limericks .
=2E. . 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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To order a copy of the book, visit:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560239263/michaelscarce

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Michael Scarce can be contacted at mscarce@earthlink.net

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To request a review copy of the book for a publication or class,
contact:

ltrance@haworthpressinc.com





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