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

1. "People: Professor Kane Race". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
2. "Cultural studies, queer theory and Science and Technology Studies". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
3. "Kane Race". The Conversation. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
4. Race, Kane (2004). Pleasure consuming medicine (Thesis). UNSW Sydney. doi:10.26190/unsworks/3815. hdl:1959.4/20473 . Retrieved 31 October 2025.
5. Race, Kane (2009), Pleasure consuming medicine : the queer politics of drugs, Duke University Press, ISBN   978-0-8223-9088-6
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
7. 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.