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Cuerpos, virus y economías morales: la prueba del VIH

2013; Complutense University of Madrid; Volume: 50; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5209/rev_poso.2013.v50.n3.41974

1988-3129

Fernando Villaamil Pérez,

HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk

In this article I try to explore a possible conceptualization of the body and subjectification technologies, considering them not as different entities but in their mutual conformation. To do this I propose to review the transformation of a medical technology, HIV testing, into a preventive technol-ogy. I am particularly interested in addressing the HIV test from the point of view of the bodies that it enacts in specific moral economies. I work through the narrative of the circumstances in which some men, mostly gays and seropositive, took the HIV test from two perspectives: first, I try to place bodies and technologies in their specific contexts of relations and experience. In a second step, I try to link these micro-processes to wider changes in the technology itself, underlining its historicity, and framing the HIV test in the changing political management of the epidemic. I argue that this perspective should In this article I try to explore a possible conceptualization of the body and subjectification technologies, considering them not as different entities but in their mutual conformation. To do this I propose to review the transformation of a medical technology, HIV testing, into a preventive technol-ogy. I am particularly interested in addressing the HIV test from the point of view of the bodies that it enacts in specific moral economies. I work through the narrative of the circumstances in which some men, mostly gays and seropositive, took the HIV test from two perspectives: first, I try to place bodies and technologies in their specific contexts of relations and experience. In a second step, I try to link these micro-processes to wider changes in the technology itself, underlining its historicity, and framing the HIV test in the changing political management of the epidemic. I argue that this perspective should.