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HIV Interventions - Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh (Paperback)
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HIV Interventions - Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh (Paperback)
Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
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Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize HIV has
changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies. In
particular, the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for
the treatment of HIV was a significant landmark in the history of
the disease. Treatment with ARV drug regimens, which began in 1996,
has enabled many thousands to live with the human immunodeficiency
virus without progressing to AIDS. Yet ARVs have also been fraught
with problems of regimen compliance, viral resistance, and
iatrogenic disease. Besides intensifying the technological and
ethical complexities of medicine, the drugs have also affected
conceptions of risk and risk practices, in turn presenting new
challenges for prevention. In order to devise safer, more effective
forms of treatment, prevention, and possibly cure, Marsha
Rosengarten asserts, it is essential to understand the relationship
between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. HIV is
an entity that constitutes and is constituted by complex material
and informational environments. Recognition of this two-way traffic
between the medical science of HIV and the expression of HIV in
individuals and societies provides a novel basis for devising new
or supplementary modes of thinking about and intervening in the
epidemic. Through such diverse materials as drug advertisements,
pill formulations, scientific articles, clinical trials, diagnostic
test results, and viral imaging as well as interviews with those
living and working with HIV, Rosengarten provides numerous
demonstrations of how the entities comprising the HIV epidemic -
bodies, viral resistance, diagnostic results, safe sex - are forged
through dynamic relations. These various phenomena challenge
existing prevention models and raise social and ethical concerns
about the impact of additional technologies such as HIV pre- and
post-exposure prophylaxis and the promise of vaccines and
microbicides. HIV Interventions is relevant to those engaged in
questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine,
biotechnology, and genomics. Further, the specific focus of the
project offers HIV practitioners - in the sciences and social
sciences, in clinical research, clinical practice, social research,
policy development and prevention education - new perspectives and
analytic tools for intercepting a virus that continues to endure
and, most critically, to change in the course of doing so.
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