...Chapter 1 discusses how authorities in San Francisco and New York City pursued the closure of gay bathhouses during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Within this particular episode of queer history and public health policy, the rhetoric of dignity proves to be at its most seductive. During the early years...

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...Chapter 3 critically assesses the existing underlying emphasis in public and global health HIV prevention research--and discourse—that is focused on the popular frame of “vulnerable” women and “invulnerable” men who are heterosexually-active. Drawing on research within epidemiology, HIV/AIDS...

...The tenuous relationship between duty and pleasure is one that has underwritten HIV/AIDS activism since the early 1980s. Most recently the tensions between duty and pleasure surfaced again in the debates concerning Truvada, an HIV-prevention pill that, if taken daily, can reduce risk of infection...

...This chapter explores how biocitizenship works to maintain national borders and relegate certain populations—in this case, immigrants with HIV/AIDS—to death. Although immigrants are not citizens, they and their biological conditions are placed under perhaps more scrutiny than those with citizenship...

... diarrhea, as well as Harper, Joe’s unhappy wife, who imagines being disemboweled by God on her journey of self-discovery. 294 This chapter explores what I call the “digestive politics and poetics of AIDS,” or the proliferation of metaphors and figures linking the material experience of HIV/AIDS (including...

...Based on twenty months of ethnographic research, the book looks at the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people in India have become visible in the Indian public sphere since...

... in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: first, a refusal to classify sexual behavior in strictly either/or terms (x is safe, y is dangerous); second, an abiding commitment to sexual pleasure as a nonfungible benefit in calculations of risk; and third...

...This chapter provides an overview of HIV/AIDS policies as well as how sexually marginalized groups are drawn into biopower programs as “high-risk” groups. In 1983, when HIV/AIDS was first detected among sex workers in India, the state’s initial response was to blame the sex workers themselves...

...This chapter draws on Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “bare life” to show how prior to HIV/AIDS, sexual minorities experienced the state only through “raw power,” where rampant violence and abuse were the norm and the state freely consigned individuals to death by depriving them of resources...

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... notions of patient-victim compliance. HIV/AIDS prevalence is also very high in Maryland (the third highest in the United States in 2009), and from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, a steep spike in African American women’s infection racialized the face of the disease in healthcare practice ( O’Daniel 2008...

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