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Kane Race (BA (Hons.), LLB, PhD, FAHA) is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. His research approaches drugs and the transformations drugs are taken to induce as sites of social and political experimentation. The primary focus of his work is the variable articulation and governmental management of drug use in recreational contexts, especially gay party scenes. He investigates the intersections of sexuality, HIV/AIDS, drugs, culture, and bodies. Professor Race's scholarship offers new understandings of care practices and disease prevention in the context of biomedical, digital, and other technological developments. His contributions have influenced public health practice as well as thinking in the fields of sexualities, cultural studies, and social theory. His research has been published in key journals across cultural studies, sociology, HIV prevention and education, drug policy, and gender and sexuality studies.