'On December 1, 2015, sex changes. Forever': Pre-exposure prophylaxis and the pharmaceuticalisation of the neoliberal sexual subject.

摘要: ABSTRACTThe global scale-up of AIDS treatment initiatives during the first decade twenty-first century has been referred to as a kind ‘pharmaceuticalisation’ public health, trend that is now building in area HIV prevention. This paper traces emergence and increased uptake pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), antiretroviral medications can keep negative individuals from becoming infected, placing it within broader (re)casting prevention medical technological problem central recent ‘end AIDS’ discourse. While discourses have grounded neoliberal calculus individual responsibility since late 1990s, PrEP constitutes pharmaceutical extension responsibilised sexual subject. Central this are acknowledgment one's risk willingness take pre-emptive action secure future without HIV. For men who sex with men, population heavily targeted for biomedical i...