Mark D M Davis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 328232 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark D M Davis |
| NOMBRES | Mark D M |
| APELLIDO | Davis |
| FIRMA | DAVIS M D M |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4075-0466 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 255 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
A biopolitics of antibiotic use
This paper examines the biopolitics of public health science concerning antibiotic prophylaxis and queer bodies. Some experts recommend that antibiotic prophylaxis should be used to curb the growing burden of sexually transmitted infections among queer people. Other experts caution that antibiotic prophylaxis will contribute to the rise of antibiotic resistance. Prescribers and patients therefore face a dilemma about the use of antibiotics that i…
Practitioner narratives on health data management for sexuality and gender diverse people
There is fervent support among some for the expansion of data-driven healthcare for improved economic efficiency, patient safety, personalised care and knowledge discovery. Yet, these promises have failed to properly consider the impact of health data in the healthcare for LGBTQ+ people. Uncritical use of health data systems can expose LGBTQ+ people to homo-, trans-, bi-, HIV- and sex worker-phobic prejudice. It may also erase their identities an…
Empathy Trends in American Youth Between 1979 and 2018
Previous research has found declining dispositional empathy among American youth from 1979 to 2009. We update these trends until 2018, using three datasets. Study 1 presents a cross-temporal meta-analysis of undergraduates’ empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index), finding significant cubic trends over time: perspective taking (PT) and empathic concern (EC) both increased since 2009. Study 2 conceptually replicated these findings using nationally…
Antibiotic Economies
This paper examines how economic rationalities shape antibiotic usage with the aim of expanding options for the reduction of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Antibiotic usage is typically attributed to the individual behaviours of patients, pet owners and prescribers, an emphasis that has neglected sociological explanations, particularly the economic rationalities that are transforming healthcare. We used sociological theory of pharmaceutical capi…
Risk individualisation and moral injury in the treatment of infection as impediments to the tackling of antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is subject to extensive risk reduction approaches. A central strategy is reducing the unnecessary use of antimicrobials across agriculture and human and animal health care without jeopardising health outcomes for all species concerned. A prominent framework is antimicrobial stewardship which seeks to balance access to effective infection treatments with ensuring that effective antimicrobials are available for future…
Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility
This paper investigates One Health (OH) applied to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to deepen and nuance its conceptual underpinnings and inform effective implementation. We consider how models of OH and AMR wedded to bioscience assumptions of life obscure biosocial complexity and reinforce the misleading assumption that scientific knowledge of AMR is generated outside social systems. With reference to in-depth interviews with medical practitioners…
Diversity via datafication? Digital patient records and citizenship for sexuality and gender diverse people
In 2018, the Australian Government adopted an ‘opt-out’ strategy to increase participation in My Health Record (MHR), the national digital patient record system. Opt out was rationalised through discourse on the universal right to health. Media controversy ensued due to privacy fears, security and commercial exploitation of patient information. LGBT community organisations warned that people with complex health needs should consider their privacy…
AMR survivors? Chronic living with antimicrobial resistant infections
Behind the statistics forecasting millions of deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an even greater burden of morbidity leaving many people with long-term chronic illnesses and disability. Despite growing recognition of the importance of inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary knowledge in forming responses to address this global health threat, there remains a paucity of social science research to understand the social burdens of…
Engaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems
Engaging stigmatised communities-including in relation to gender, sexuality, sex work, drug use, HIV-requires a commitment to data justice. The design and implementation of digital health systems requires investment in ongoing and meaningful consultation with communities and representative organisations
Antibiotics online
The internet enables access to information and the purchasing of medical products of various quality and legality. Research and regulatory attention have focused on the trafficking of illicit substances, potential physical harms of pharmaceuticals, and possibilities like financial fraud. However, there is far less attention paid to antibiotics and other antimicrobials used to treat infections. With online pharmacies affording greater access, caut…
The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance
This paper employs an assemblage lens to generate analyses of general public narratives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Global efforts to reduce AMR include communications aiming to promote general public awareness, provide knowledge, encourage careful antibiotics use, and discourage demands for them. These efforts are somewhat compromised by the assumptions they make of individual lack of knowledge and motivation and the manner in which the A…
Reconfiguring Breast Reconstruction in the Post-Cancer Life in Vietnam
In the context of breast cancer, women who refuse reconstruction are often portrayed as having limited agency or control over their bodies and treatment. Here we assess these assumptions by paying attention to how the local contexts and inter-relational dynamics influence women's decision-making about their mastectomized body in Central Vietnam. We situate the reconstructive decision within an under-funded public health system, but also show how …
Live with the Virus' Narrative and Pandemic Amnesia in the Governance of Covid-19
Political leaders have commonly used the phrase 'learn to live with the virus' to explain to citizens how they should respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider how the 'live with the virus' narrative perpetrates pandemic amnesia by refusing what is known about pandemic-related inequities and the strategies that can be used to overcome these effects. Advice to 'live with the virus' helps to further austerity public policy and therefore individu…
Antibiotic assemblages and their implications for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance
Leaving without a word
Researchers have extensively explored the early and middle stages of romantic and sexual relationships for those high on the Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) but they have generally missed the termination stage of relationships. In this study we examined (N = 341) the role these traits play in one termination strategy, ghosting. Ghosting is when a person discontinues a relationship through silence; it is con…
The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance
Role crisis, risk and trust in Australian general public narratives about antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance
As antibiotics have become increasingly ineffective against bacteria, antibiotic stewardship has been introduced across a variety of settings world-wide. Members of the public have been entreated to use antibiotics strictly as prescribed. We interviewed ninety-nine participants who shared their understandings of antibiotics and reflections on antibiotic resistant bacteria. Some participants were eager consumers of antibiotics whilst others sought…
A year in the public life of superbugs
Willy nilly' doctors, bad patients, and resistant bodies in general public explanations of antimicrobial resistance
Increased public engagement is a feature of policy and communications focussed on the reduction of antimicrobial resistance. Explaining antimicrobial resistance for general publics has proven difficult and they continue to endorse apparently mistaken knowledge, including the conflation of antimicrobial resistance with the notion of the resistant body. We interviewed members of the general public in Melbourne, Australia, to explore explanatory mod…
CDC Engagement With Community and Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health Emergencies
Navigating HIV citizenship
The use of HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) has radically changed our understandings of HIV risk and revolutionised global HIV prevention policy to focus on the use of pharmaceuticals. Yet, there has been little engagement with the very people expected to comply with a daily pharmaceutical regime. We employ the concept of HIV citizenship to explore responses by people living with HIV in the UK to TasP. We consider how a treatment-based public h…
The private life of medicine
Understanding media publics and the antimicrobial resistance crisis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) imperils health for people across the world. This enormous challenge is being met with the rationalisation of prescription, dispensing and consumption of antimicrobials in clinical settings and in the everyday lives of members of the general population. Individuals need to be reached outside clinical settings to prepare them for the necessary changes to the pharmaceutical management of infections; efforts that depen…
Antibiotic optimisation in ‘the bush’
Location, safety and (non) strangers in gay men’s narratives on ‘hook-up’ apps
Hook-up websites and apps are said to be transforming the sexual lives of gay men and have been linked with the apparent erosion of gay publics as the basis for identity politics and social action. This article examines these dynamics in the interview and focus-group talk of gay men living on the economic and geographical margins of metropolitan gay culture. It offers perspectives on the importance of location – class, generation and space – for …
On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology
Anthropology and cognate disciplines have long addressed the complex and troubled relations of public and private life, supplying insight into such matters as identity, politics, and civic life. In the multiple, interconnected settings of an intricately globalized and mediatized twenty-first century, how secrets are made, maintained, and broken remains vitally important to social science and its publics. The special issue we introduce here brings…
After the euphoria
This paper focuses on the relationship of HIV medical technologies to current styles of medical practice and highlights issues posed by the technologies for those working and/or living with HIV. The paper examines HIV anti-retroviral combination therapies and associated tests from the perspective of their prescribers. The prescribers were interviewed during the later part of 2002 at three London HIV clinics. Their comments, considered in light of…
HIV Prevention Rationalities and Serostatus in the Risk Narratives of Gay Men
This article examines the rationalistic aspects of HIV prevention discourse. Self-protection, altruistic and egalitarian rationalities are examined from the perspectives of self-regulation, surveillance medicine and risk identity. These themes are examined through 16 in-depth interviews with HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men in relation to the (dis)order produced in risk administration. The analysis exposes some contradictions, the unequal re…
Navigating HIV citizenship
The use of HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) has radically changed our understandings of HIV risk and revolutionised global HIV prevention policy to focus on the use of pharmaceuticals. Yet, there has been little engagement with the very people expected to comply with a daily pharmaceutical regime. We employ the concept of HIV citizenship to explore responses by people living with HIV in the UK to TasP. We consider how a treatment-based public h…
Preventing hepatitis C
Understanding the biopsychosocial aspects of HIV disclosure among HIV-positive gay men in Scotland
This study presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiential accounts of HIV-positive gay men. Participants took part in open-ended interviews. Three key-related recurrent themes are presented: 'Disclosure, deliberation and the abject other'; 'Disclosure, care and the valued other' and 'Disclosure and intimate citizenship'. These highlight the complex, situated and mindful ways in which disclosure occurs. They stand in cont…
E-dating, identity and HIV prevention
This paper addresses how London gay men use the internet to meet sexual partners, or for e-dating. Based on qualitative interviews conducted face-to-face or via the internet, this research develops an account of how information technologies mediate the negotiation of identity and risk in connection with sexual practice. E-dating itself is a bricolage, or heterogeneous DIY practice of internet-based-communication (IBC). A central aspect of IBC is …
Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control
The 'loss of community' and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention
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 citizensh…
The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance
We Became Sceptics
In this article, we examine the apparent resistance of publics to messages regarding pandemic influenza. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic was addressed through media: governments used print, broadcast, and digital media to advise publics to enact hygiene practices and comply with social isolation; news media took up the pandemic as a lead story. Publics, however, rated the pandemic as not serious, even before it was widely known that it was mild for most. …
We had to do what we thought was right at the time
For a few weeks in 2009 it was not certain whether the world faced a lethal influenza pandemic. As it turned out, the H1N1 pandemic was less severe than anticipated, though the infection did affect groups not usually susceptible to influenza. The deep uncertainties of this pandemic moment were associated with immense practical, scientific and political challenges for public health agencies around the world. We examine these challenges by drawing …
Mobilising “vulnerability” in the public health response to pandemic influenza
Sex, Technology and Public Health
Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the i
Uncertainty and 'technological horizon' in qualitative interviews about HIV treatment
Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) has reduced death and morbidity among people with HIV. However, HAART is not always effective, can produce serious side-effects and implies uncertainty for patients. To address HAART-related uncertainty, 20 qualitative interviews were conducted with gay men with HIV in Glasgow and London. The interviewees were purposively selected to reflect diversity in terms of year of diagnosis, experiences of il…
The private life of medicine
Antibiotic optimisation in ‘the bush’
Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics
This article examines discourse on immunity in general public engagements with pandemic influenza in light of critical theory on immuno-politics and bodily integrity. Interview and focus group discussions on influenza with members of the general public reveal that, despite endorsement of government advice on how to avoid infection, influenza is seen as, ultimately, unavoidable. In place of prevention, members of the general public speak of immuni…
Obstinate essentialism
This article explores the ways gay men living with HIV talk about their identities in relationship to ideas concerning essentialism in the broader context of biomedicalisation. Data were collected from 36 HIV-positive gay men between 2001 and 2005 from two studies. All interview material was initially collected and analysed using broadly speaking thematic analysis. Identity-oriented themes were then further explored with a critical lens examining…
Engaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems
Engaging stigmatised communities-including in relation to gender, sexuality, sex work, drug use, HIV-requires a commitment to data justice. The design and implementation of digital health systems requires investment in ongoing and meaningful consultation with communities and representative organisations
The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance
This paper employs an assemblage lens to generate analyses of general public narratives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Global efforts to reduce AMR include communications aiming to promote general public awareness, provide knowledge, encourage careful antibiotics use, and discourage demands for them. These efforts are somewhat compromised by the assumptions they make of individual lack of knowledge and motivation and the manner in which the A…
A year in the public life of superbugs
Biography, pandemic time and risk
During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, it was identified that women in the third trimester of pregnancy were particularly at risk of serious respiratory distress. At-risk women were advised to seek vaccination, avoid contact with anyone unwell, maintain hygiene routines and stop smoking. We examine this situation of emergent and intense risk produced at the intersection of individual biography and the historical event of a public health emergency. We exa…
Identity, Expertise and HIV Risk in a Case Study of Reflexivity and Medical Technologies
Using qualitative interviews with gay men with HIV and with reference to identity, expertise and HIV medical technologies, this article contributes to debate concerning the concept of risk reflexivity. Since the mid 1990s, people with HIV in the affluent, global North have had access to HIV treatment that substantially improves health. Recent research has expressed fears that, by satisfying hopes for effective treatment among affected citizens, H…
Antibiotic assemblages and their implications for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance
What are we heading for in medical care
What are we heading for in medical care? M M DavisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.4.651 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Sustaining safe sex
OBJECTIVE: TO assess the maintenance of safe sexual practice. (We use the term 'safe' sex throughout the paper, since 'safe' is the term adopted by the Australian National Committee on AIDS). DESIGN: Maintenance was assessed by comparing sexual behaviour with both regular and casual partners reported in a 1986/1987 survey (time 1) with behaviour reported in a second survey in 1991 (time 2). METHOD: The 145 homosexually active participants were a …
Mr. Miami Beach
Mr. Miami Beach. Prod. by Mark Davis. MDTV Productions, 1998. 57 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Edward F. Haas Edward F. Haas Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Page 1181, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567380 Published: 01 December 1998
'HIV is HIV to me'
This paper identifies some aspects of the risk management practices of HIV positive gay men in relation to HIV treatments and sexual practice. The paper uses qualitative methods to examine sexual practice and HIV transmission in relation to HIV blood test viral load information. Questions of reinfection with HIV are also examined. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 25 gay and other homosexually active men and analysed for relevant themes. …
HIV Prevention Rationalities and Serostatus in the Risk Narratives of Gay Men
This article examines the rationalistic aspects of HIV prevention discourse. Self-protection, altruistic and egalitarian rationalities are examined from the perspectives of self-regulation, surveillance medicine and risk identity. These themes are examined through 16 in-depth interviews with HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men in relation to the (dis)order produced in risk administration. The analysis exposes some contradictions, the unequal re…
IJDP commentary
Use of gay Internet sites and views about online health promotion among men who have sex with men
In May-June 2002, 4,974 men who have sex with men (MSM), average age 31 years, completed a self-administered questionnaire online accessed through two popular gay Internet sites in the UK (gaydar and gay.com UK). Most men were white (95%), employed (83%), lived in the UK (91%) and self-identified as gay (85%). Nearly half (46%) had not been tested for HIV, while 6% said they were HIV-positive. One-third (31%) reported high-risk sexual behaviour i…
Reflecting on the experience of interviewing online
This paper considers some of the strengths and weaknesses of conducting synchronous online interviews for qualitative research. It is based on a study among gay/bisexual men that used both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the association between seeking sex through the Internet and HIV transmission risk. Between June 2002 and January 2004, 128 gay/bisexual men living in London were interviewed one-to-one by the first author (MD) ab…
The Internet and HIV study
The strength of the Internet and HIV study is its methodological plurality, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research among online and offline samples, as well as taking advantage of recent advances in web survey design. The study's findings will help us better understand the role of the Internet in relation to gay men's sexual practice
Managing seen and unseen blood associated with drug injecting
Beyond prevention? Injecting drug user narratives about hepatitis C
Preventing hepatitis C
After the euphoria
This paper focuses on the relationship of HIV medical technologies to current styles of medical practice and highlights issues posed by the technologies for those working and/or living with HIV. The paper examines HIV anti-retroviral combination therapies and associated tests from the perspective of their prescribers. The prescribers were interviewed during the later part of 2002 at three London HIV clinics. Their comments, considered in light of…
Gay men who look for sex on the Internet
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the excess risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) seen among gay men who look for sex through the Internet occurs with men they meet online (through the Internet) rather than offline (in bars, clubs, etc). METHODS: In 2002-2003, 4225 London gay men were surveyed in an HIV treatment clinic, HIV testing clinic, gyms and on UK Internet sites (gaydar and gay.com). All men completed a self-administered ques…
Sex and the Internet
Access to the Internet has increased dramatically over the past decade as has its use for meeting sexual partners (e-dating), particularly among gay men. Between June 2002 and January 2004, 128 gay/bisexual men living in London were interviewed one-to-one about their experience of e-dating, sexual risk and HIV prevention. The men were recruited both online (through the Internet) and offline (in clinics and the community); 32 men were HIV-positive…
Uncertainty and 'technological horizon' in qualitative interviews about HIV treatment
Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) has reduced death and morbidity among people with HIV. However, HAART is not always effective, can produce serious side-effects and implies uncertainty for patients. To address HAART-related uncertainty, 20 qualitative interviews were conducted with gay men with HIV in Glasgow and London. The interviewees were purposively selected to reflect diversity in terms of year of diagnosis, experiences of il…
E-dating, identity and HIV prevention
This paper addresses how London gay men use the internet to meet sexual partners, or for e-dating. Based on qualitative interviews conducted face-to-face or via the internet, this research develops an account of how information technologies mediate the negotiation of identity and risk in connection with sexual practice. E-dating itself is a bricolage, or heterogeneous DIY practice of internet-based-communication (IBC). A central aspect of IBC is …
Where Young MSM Meet Their First Sexual Partner
Identity, Expertise and HIV Risk in a Case Study of Reflexivity and Medical Technologies
Using qualitative interviews with gay men with HIV and with reference to identity, expertise and HIV medical technologies, this article contributes to debate concerning the concept of risk reflexivity. Since the mid 1990s, people with HIV in the affluent, global North have had access to HIV treatment that substantially improves health. Recent research has expressed fears that, by satisfying hopes for effective treatment among affected citizens, H…
The 'loss of community' and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention
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 citizensh…
Sex, Technology and Public Health
Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the i
Healthy living and citizenship
Biomedicalization
Love and HIV serodiscordance in gay men's accounts of life with their regular partners
This paper examines discourse on serodiscordant relationships in interviews with 16 HIV-positive and 3 HIV-negative gay men living in Scotland. Drawing on critiques concerning love, reason and HIV serostatus normativity, this paper supplies a much-needed insight into how gay men in serodiscordant relationships negotiate HIV prevention. Among other matters, some HIV-negative men were said to knowingly request risky sex with their HIV-positive part…
You have to come into the world’
This paper explores the relation between internet technologies and social change with reference to the narratives of ordinary internet-users living in Melbourne, Australia. The argument developed here draws attention to the interviewee's imaginaries of being-in-the-world under internet-related change; imaginaries which are, at times, marked by a language of emotional and bodily transition. This framing of life with the internet suggests that its …
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