Kane Race
Kane Race is an Australian professor of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney and is the author of a number of books including Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The queer politics of drugs (2009) and The Gay Science: Intimate experiments with HIV (2018).[1]
He is internationally recognised for his contribution to the fields of HIV social research, critical drug studies as well as studies of digital sex.[2]
Education
In 1993 Race received a bachelor of art with honours at the University of Sydney which he followed with a bachelor of laws at the same university.[3]
In 2004 he received his PhD from the University of New South Wales.[4][3]
Selected publications
- Race, Kane (2009). Pleasure consuming medicine : the queer politics of drugs. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.[5]
- Hawkins, Gay & Potter, Emily & Race, Kane & Ebook Central (2015). Plastic Water : The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.[6]
- Race, Kane (2018). The gay science : intimate experiments with the problem of HIV. Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY.[7]
References
- ^ "People: Professor Kane Race". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "Cultural studies, queer theory and Science and Technology Studies". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ a b "Kane Race". The Conversation. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ Race, Kane (2004). Pleasure consuming medicine (Thesis). UNSW Sydney. doi:10.26190/unsworks/3815. hdl:1959.4/20473. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ^ Race, Kane (2009), Pleasure consuming medicine : the queer politics of drugs, Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-9088-6
- ^ Hawkins, Gay; Potter, Emily; Race, Kane; Ebook Central (2015), Plastic Water : The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-32952-1
- ^ Race, Kane (2018). The gay science: intimate experiments with the problem of HIV. Sexuality, culture and health series. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis group. ISBN 978-1-138-68382-2.