Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822345013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brilliant and honest Tim H This book takes queer theory and approaches in unexpected directions by using it to critique the norms of everyday life that underwrite the pharmaceutical market AND punitive approaches to the War on Drugs. As such, it presents a stunningly fresh use of queer theory and extends the project of scholars like Eve Sedgwick, among others, who hoped that queer theory would spin off into entirely unanticipated directions and applications, while still providing a powerful critique of normalising regimes. But this book is much more than theory. Refreshingly, it is generously informed by a whole lot of hist. travelcrazy said Thoughtful and challenging. This book addresses head on some of the sterotypical thinking current in the addiction treatment world about the horrors of drug use. It is so easy to take a moralistic stand on drug use, and yet how unhelpful has that position been shown to be? As the war on drug has shown us, mostly destructive, as drug use simply goes underground. I have seen many 1"Thoughtful and challenging" according to travelcrazy. This book addresses head on some of the sterotypical thinking current in the addiction treatment world about the horrors of drug use. It is so easy to take a moralistic stand on drug use, and yet how unhelpful has that position been shown to be? As the war on drug has shown us, mostly destructive, as drug use simply goes underground. I have seen many 12-step programmes simply reproduce the same weary thinking. This book doesn't take an opposing romanticised view that drug taking is all OK and good. Instead, it asks questions about the social function of making drug-taking illegal. It takes a meta-. -step programmes simply reproduce the same weary thinking. This book doesn't take an opposing romanticised view that drug taking is all OK and good. Instead, it asks questions about the social function of making drug-taking illegal. It takes a meta-. Five Stars James Seo Good as new
“This book's clear prose makes a complex subject easily digestible. This is an important contribution to the field of queer theory and provides a catalyst for further work grounded in pleasure and embodiments.” - Jessica Rodgers, M/C Reviews. Race's book provides useful theoretical starting points for anyone considering gay community, discourses surrounding consumption of legal and illegal drugs, and pleasure and subjectivity
As he demonstrates, the state’s performance of moral sovereignty around substances designated “illicit” bears little relation to the actual dangers of drug consumption; in fact, it exacerbates those dangers.Race does not suggest that drug use is risk-free, good, or bad, but rather that the regulation of drugs has become a site where ideological lessons about the propriety of consumption are propounded. But when police appear at the gates with drug-detecting dogs, mild panic ensues. He argues that official discourses about drug use conjure a space where the neoliberal state can be seen to be policing the “excesses” of the amoral market. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies t