Dave Holmes

From former MTV VJ Dave Holmes, the hilarious memoir of a perpetual outsider fumbling towards self-acceptance, with the music of the '80s, '90s, and today as his soundtrack Dave Holmes has spent his life on the periphery, nose pressed hopefully against the glass, wanting just one thing: to get inside. Growing up, he was the artsy son in the sporty family. At his all-boys high school and Catholic college, he was the closeted gay kid surrounded by crush-worthy straight guys. And in his twenties, in the middle of a disastrous career in advertising, he accidentally became an MTV VJ overnight when he finished second, naturally, in the Wanna Be a VJ contest, opening the door to fame, fortune, and celebrity—you know, almost. In Party of One, Holmes tells the hilariously painful and painfully hilarious tales—in the vein of Rob Sheffield, Andy Cohen, and Paul Feig—of an outsider desperate to get in, of a misfit constantly changing shape, of a music geek who finally learns to accept himself. Structured around a mix of hits and deep cuts from the last four decades—from Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" and En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" to LCD Soundsystem’s “Losing My Edge” and Bleachers’ “I Wanna Get Better”—and punctuated with interludes like "So You've Had Your Heart Broken in the 1990s: A Playlist" and “Notes on (Jesse) Camp,” this book is for anyone who's ever felt like a square peg, especially those who have found their place in the world around a band, an album, or a song. It's a laugh-out-loud funny, deeply nostalgic story about never fitting in, never giving up, and letting good music guide the way. – NPR “Best Books of 2016”: Staff Picks, Biography & Memoir, For Music Lovers, Funny Stuff, Non-fiction Categories

A Memoir in 21 Songs

Party of One

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities. Drawn from diverse disciplines, this volume works toward a new mode of discourse in bioethics, offering a critique of the current norms and constraints under which Western healthcare operates. The contributions imagine new, less paternalistic, terms by which bioethics might proceed - terms that do not resort to exclusively Western models of liberal humanism or to the logic of neoliberal economies. It is argued that in this way, we can begin to develop an ethical vocabulary that does justice to the challenges of our age. Bringing together theorists, practitioners and clinicians to present a wide variety of related disciplinary concerns and perspectives on bioethics, this volume challenges the underlying assumptions that continue to hold sway in the ethics of medicine and health sciences.

Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare

Stuart J. Murray

Thomas Foth

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Cover image -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Opening quotes -- Introduction: RadSex in theory and in practice -- Part I Bareback sex -- 1 Brothers-in-cum: a critical discourse analysis of barebacking rhetoric -- 2 Mediated intimacies: raw sex, Truvada, and the politics of chemoprophylaxis -- 3 "Not only macho-fuckers are barebackers": challenging gender relations among men who have sex with men -- 4 The anatomy of a forbidden desire: men, penetration, and semen exchange -- Part II BDSM practices -- 5 BDSM, sexual subcultures, and the ethics of public health discourse -- 6 Degenitalizing the sexual: BDSM practices and the deterritorialization of bodies and pleasures -- 7 Fucking with fluids and wet with desire: power and humiliation using cum, piss, and blood -- Part III Public sex -- 8 Transgressive assemblages: an ethnography of gay group sex -- 9 Faceless sex: glory holes and sexual assemblages -- 10 Profiling public sex: how Grindr revolutionized the face of gay cruising -- 11 Secret desires: contemporary Brazilian masculinities in the era of network relations -- Index

Assembling Desiring-machines

Radical Sex Between Men

Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among others. While the collection contributes to current research in gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology.

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