Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/AIDS and the limits of human rights in British prisons

Weston, Janet

doi:10.1080/14780038.2019.1585012

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“…Less commonly, states also restrict certain fundamental human rights and freedoms to protect public health. An example of such restrictions can be found in British prisons, where authorities restricted certain rights to stop spreading HIV [ 3 ]. Similarly, in 2009, governments worldwide restricted certain fundamental human rights and freedoms to stop spreading the A/H1N1 virus [ 4 ].…”

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Internal and external drivers for compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures in Slovenia: The view from general deterrence and protection motivation

2021

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The emergence of a pandemic is usually accompanied by different measures–economic, social, preventive, and (self)protective. In the case of the COVID-19, several preventive measures were formally enforced by state authorities in the majority of countries worldwide. Thus, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the intertwining of formal and informal social control could be observed. Hence, in this study a cross-sectional design was chosen to explore the issue in Slovenia. To the best of our knowledge, this research is the first in the current literature to empirically test the general deterrence theory in pandemic circumstances (as external factors predicting individuals’ compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures). The results suggest an important role of informal punishment, with perceived informal severity being the only statistically significant factor from the general deterrence theory. In contrast to external factors, internal factors play a significantly greater role in promoting people’s self-protective behavior in pandemic circumstances. During the unknown, the uncertain and delicate situations with which people have no previous experience, both personal beliefs about the effectiveness of measures and perceived self-efficacy are more important than fear of formal sanctions.

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Internal and external drivers for compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures in Slovenia: The view from general deterrence and protection motivation

2021

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“…Compared to the dearth of information on sexual health in earlier decades, there are vast (though not always easily accessible) historical records on HIV/AIDS. It is an abundance that historians have noted in their finely grained studies of AIDS-era sexual health (Cook, 2017;Engleman, 2018;Loughlin & Berridge, 2008;McKay, 2017), ranging from oral histories ('HIV/AIDS Testimonies'; 'Imagining Patient Zero'; Severs, 2020; 'The AIDS Era'), to grassroots activism (Gould, 2009;Severs, 2021), to studies of policy change and health campaigns (Berridge, 1996;Coyle, 2008;Weston, 2019). Although the focus was originally on queer men (Cook, 2019;McKay, 2016McKay, , 2017Severs, 2017), growing collections of archives and scholarship are mapping the historical framing and reframing of HIV/AIDS as affecting other LGBTQ+ groups, health workers and wider society ('HIV in the Family'; 'Invisible Women'; 'The AIDS Era').…”

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Histories of ‘a loathsome disease’: Sexual health in modern Britain

Hanley

2022

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From Victorian preoccupations with prostitution and degeneration to our present-day problems with antimicrobial resistance and inequalities in access to care, sexual health has been riddled with gendered, racialised, politicised and class-based meanings. Historians writing from within an increasingly diverse collection of subfields have explored how British attitudes towards, and interventions in, sexual health have changed over the past two centuries. In so doing, they have also addressed a wide range of themes in British social life, politics, gender and sexuality. This article surveys this extensive historiography, highlighting important shifts and reflecting on where historians might fruitfully turn next. Inevitably, there are problematic silences in the scholarship. Historians, overwhelmingly reliant on records compiled by health authorities and the state, have tended to write top-down histories of sexual health. The lived experiences of ordinary people, especially those on the margins of society, remain frustratingly elusive. Moreover, the same sorts of inequalities that historically undermined care and denied patients a voice continue to shape health outcomes.As such, this article not only surveys the historiography but also makes the case for the important role that historians can play in supporting positive changes in attitudes towards sexual health and the delivery of healthcare today.

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“…Here, different imaginaries of threat conflate. First, with the emergence of HIV/AIDS, PWUD ‘signify contamination, disease and disgust’ (Vitellone, 2017: 89), and the construction of the prison as a site of contagion made imprisoned PWUD appear foremost as ‘a risk’ to public health rather than a vulnerable group ‘at risk’ (Weston, 2019). Second, such concerns are based on the wardens’ experiences with prisoners’ frequent aggressions against them as representatives and executors of state power and punishment.…”

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HIV/AIDS and its monsters. Negotiating criminalisation along the monster–human continuum

Dziuban

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Sekuler

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European Journal of Cultural Studies

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We use the concept of the ‘monster’ in this article as an analytical tool to grasp a variety of persons who – understood to be criminals in their countries of residence, and living with or thought to be particularly vulnerable to HIV – are perceived as threats from across the European region. Building on the field of monster studies, we focus here on strategies undertaken to shift the ‘monstrous’ towards the ‘human’ along what we describe as monster–human continuums. Relying on ethnographic fieldwork from Germany, Poland and Greece, four case studies examine processes of (re-)humanisation in the fields of migration, prisons, drug use and sex work that emerge at the intersections of humanitarianism, public health, human rights and citizenship. In particular, we propose that these strategies can entail the production of dissimilar forms of political subjectivity, the redistribution of responsibility or vulnerability and a reshuffling of blame within the moral economy of innocence and guilt – strategies that produce particular norms and forms of the human. These strategies, moreover, involve the normalisation or suppression of ‘abnormal’, ‘irrational’ or ‘guilty’ dimensions of criminalised subjects, thereby taming their capacity to confuse or confront societies’ worldviews, and ultimately foreclosing the possibility to imagine a being-in-the-world otherwise. We thus conclude by asking how embracing the monstrous might facilitate the navigation of cultural, social and moral anxieties that leave room for complex and conflicting practices and subjectivities.

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Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/AIDS and the limits of human rights in British prisons

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Internal and external drivers for compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures in Slovenia: The view from general deterrence and protection motivation

Internal and external drivers for compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures in Slovenia: The view from general deterrence and protection motivation

Histories of ‘a loathsome disease’: Sexual health in modern Britain

HIV/AIDS and its monsters. Negotiating criminalisation along the monster–human continuum

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