Beschreibung:
A cultural analysis of how drug discourses produce and enforce certain notions of responsible personhood in contemporary society, with a particular focus on the histories of 'drug abuse' and 'patient compliance' in HIV/AIDS discourse.
Preface ixAcknowledgments xvii1. Pleasure Consuming Medicine: An Introduction 12. Prescribing the Self 323. Recreational States 594. Drugs and Domesticity: Fencing the Nation 805. Consuming Compliance: Remembering Bodies Inhabit Pharmaceutical Narratives 1066. Embodiments of Safety 1377. Exceptional Sex: How Drugs Have Come to Mediate Sex in Gay Discourse 164Notes 191Selected Bibliography 229Index 245