Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1. PLEASURE CONSUMING MEDICINE. An Introduction 1
6. 2. PRESCRIBING THE SELF 32
7. 3. RECREATIONAL STATES 59
8. 4. DRUGS AND DOMESTICITY. Fencing the Nation 80
9. 5. CONSUMING COMPLIANCE. Remembering Bodies Inhabit Pharmaceutical Narratives 106
10. 6. EMBODIMENTS OF SAFETY 137
11. 7. EXCEPTIONAL SEX. How Drugs Have Come to Mediate Sex in Gay Discourse 164
12. Notes 191
13. Selected Bibliography 229
14. Index 245