Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men

by Michael Scarce

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560239263
• ISBN13: 9781560239260
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A vital examination of the failure of healthcare for gay men

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.