This course investigates the cultural, social and political aspects of sex and drug practices using theories of embodiment. We approach the body as a locus of power, pleasure, learning, subjectivity and change. What happens when we conceive the body as a cultural medium rather than (or as well as) a mere object of health and medicine? How do social and cultural approaches enliven the doing of health? How are sexuality and drugs grasped by modern regimes of power? And how have marginalised cultures and groups sought to transform embodied practice? Students will gain familiarity with important concepts from fields that are currently redefining the sociology of health, including science studies, corporeal feminism, queer theory, biopolitics, and governmentality studies.