Biomedicalizing Risk: Technologies of HIV Prevention and the Moral Imperatives of Biological Citizenship
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hester, Rebecca | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Macdonald, Arlene | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Nichols, Joan | |
| dc.creator | Banda, Jonathan Paul | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0002-5653-0479 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-05T21:22:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-05T21:22:09Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2015-08 | |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2015 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-05T21:22:09Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the history and social implications of the rapid self-test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States. Via a discursive analysis of literature, product packaging, and marketing and public health rhetoric surrounding the test (brand name: OraQuick in-home HIV test), I identify several points of contention that have arisen with the varied, sometimes disparate interests of public health, federal regulators, and private corporations. I propose that while home HIV tests may improve health outcomes for some and appear to expand consumer rights, they are in fact the vanguard of a new form of self-testing that carries a moral urgency to protect one’s own body and to manage societal risk. This thesis concludes with a critical analysis of the prophylactic use of antiretrovirals for HIV, arguing that this practice represents a new relation of the body to risk, while potentially obscuring or normalizing structural conditions that contribute to vulnerability to infection. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152.3/645 | |
| dc.subject | HIV, biopolitics, public health, biosecurity | |
| dc.title | Biomedicalizing Risk: Technologies of HIV Prevention and the Moral Imperatives of Biological Citizenship | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Medical Humanities | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Social Medicine | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Medical Humanities (Masters) |