Intimacy, Altruism and the Loneliness of Moral Choice: The Case of HIV Positive Health Workers

Small, Neil

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-24518-5_11

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“…The altruistic/unruly individual connection has a longstanding importance for HIV. Following Titmuss, Small (1996) has described how UK health policy relied on HIV positive healthcare workers absenting themselves from medical practices. A policy of altruism was seen as more practical than a coercive strategy of detection and removal from clinical practice.…”

Section: From Transgression To Altruismmentioning

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The ‘loss of community’ and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention

Davis

2007

Sociology Health & Illness

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Increases in reported unsafe sex among gay men have been explained as resistance to HIV prevention, or most recently, with the idea that a hyper-individualisation of sexual action contributes to the loss of sexual community. This turning in HIV prevention has come to focus on the sexual action of gay men with HIV through the frames of: sexual transgression, sometimes called 'barebacking'; and altruism. Adopting the perspective of sexual citizenship in connection with qualitative interviews, this paper considers how gay men with HIV account for their sexual practice in light of the dual discourse of transgression/altruism. The paper will argue that gay men with HIV are deeply aware of what transgression/altruism implies for their identities and sexual relations, indicating the continued salience of community for sexual practice. Further, in the circumstances of blaming in relation to the moral labour of safer sex, gay men with HIV are trying to work out a co-operative practice for HIV prevention based on self-care, a moderated altruism and the voluntary action of sexual partners.

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Section: From Transgression To Altruismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘loss of community’ and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention

Davis

2007

Sociology Health & Illness

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Making Decisions: Social work processes and the construction of risk(s) in child protection work

Stanley¹

2005

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Intimacy, Altruism and the Loneliness of Moral Choice: The Case of HIV Positive Health Workers

Cited by 2 publications

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The ‘loss of community’ and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention

The ‘loss of community’ and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention

Making Decisions: Social work processes and the construction of risk(s) in child protection work

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