M Rosengarten
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 41049 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Rosengarten |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Rosengarten |
| FIRMA | ROSENGARTEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3820-4810 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Narcofeminism and its multiples
Sociology has a long-standing interest in the consumption of licit and illicit drugs, particularly as a feminist concern with scholars highlighting the ways in which drugs are used as regulatory technologies to control the conduct and subjectivities of women and other marginalised groups. This monograph flips the focus from a feminist sociological concern with drugs as a means of confining minoritised peoples, to explore what they can do as a fem…
Living and responding at the margins
On 25 November 2021, the editors of this monograph had the honour and pleasure of talking to five founding members of the narcofeminist activist movement from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They discuss the history and vision of the movement, the issues confronting women and gender minorities who use drugs, and the significance of the political context of drug prohibition in shaping their experiences. This article documents this conversation as…
Afterword
In this piece we reflect on the tensions and complexities of drug use that narcofeminism has prompted us to grapple with in producing this collection. Narcofeminist approaches challenge us to move beyond simplistic, moralistic frameworks that pathologise and stigmatise those who use drugs, and instead seek more nuanced understandings of the social, cultural and political forces through which drug use materialises. By foregrounding the experiences…
Perplexity as a provocation
This article revisits long-standing critiques of the role of metaphor in immunological discourse. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's speculative philosophy of organism, I focus on the use of metaphor to explain the process by which COVID-19 vaccine research is able to generate protective antibodies, the challenge of autoimmune disease and dengue fever antibodies. I suggest that metaphors are provoked by the perplexity that arises from presupposi…
Covid-19 Diagnoses
Although the body is fundamental to observation and feeling, its experience of infection is regarded by the biomedical sciences and, for the most part, the social sciences as relatively obtuse. The body is situated as a mere object of inquiry, as if its intricate and highly complex dynamics indicate that it is no more than an imperfect animated machine and, concomitantly, infection simply a change to its normative mechanisms. In this Position Pie…
The challenge of breath
The challenge of breath: toward an 'after' COVID-19COVID-19 has the capacity to take our breath away, the very essence of what is necessary to sustain life.So too might the response to COVID-19 be seen as breathtaking.Besides the introduction, almost overnight, of extraordinary changes to our daily existence -notably practices of isolation, paradoxically consistent with the necessity for collectively thwarting COVID-19's communicability -science …
PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) and its possibilities for clinical practice
In this article, we reflect on the possibilities that PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) raises for HIV specialist clinicians. Often neglected, yet a direct participant at the intersection of a complex tension within public health debates on how to reduce HIV transmission and the sexual sociability of individuals, we reflect on current thinking of health practitioners involved in the day-to-day practice of prescribing PrEP. Drawing on interviews…
A model society
Viral outbreaks and public health emergencies obligate an urgent need for evidence to inform rapid responses. In the case of SARS-Cov-2, a novel virus linked to the fast-moving COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models projecting disease outbreaks and the potential effects of interventions are playing a critical role. Modelled projections are not only evidence-making policy decisions, but are afforded power-of-acting in public understandings and in …
Beyond biological citizenship
This special section reflects on the challenges and achievements of HIV/AIDS activism in the historico-political context of the European region. While there is substantial literature on activist-driven policy shifts in the different and, particularly, the early stages of the epidemic, much of this has studied Western Europe. Considerably less attention has been given to the broader European region and its constituent countries, especially those a…
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies
Background: In public health emergencies, evidence, intervention, decisions and translation proceed simultaneously, in greatly compressed timeframes, with knowledge and advice constantly in flux. Idealised approaches to evidence-based policy and practice are ill equipped to deal with the uncertainties arising in evolving situations of need. Key points for discussion: There is much to learn from rapid assessment and outbreak science approaches. Th…
A wager on the future
A careful biomedicine? Generalization and abstraction in RCTs
This article takes up biomedical and public health concerns about the difficulty of generalizing or extrapolating measurements of efficacy produced by the method of the randomized control trial (RCT) to wider populations. While explanations for the difficulty may be deduced from social studies of science that reveal the contingent and situated nature of trial findings, new conceptual tools are required to allow for the practical value associated …
Connective adventures in the work of Ebola
Increasing Belief in the Effectiveness of HIV Treatment as Prevention
What is nature capable of? Evidence, ontology and speculative medical humanities
Expanding on the recent call for a 'critical medical humanities' to intervene in questions of the ontology of health, this article develops a what we call a 'speculative' orientation to such interventions in relation to some of the ontological commitments on which contemporary biomedical cultures rest. We argue that crucial to this task is an approach to ontology that treats it not as a question of first principles, but as a matter of the consequ…
Innovation and Biomedicine
With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and t
HIV-Negative and HIV-Positive Gay Men’s Attitudes to Medicines, HIV Treatments and Antiretroviral-based Prevention
Medicine
In this introduction, we address some of the complexities associated with the emergence of medicine's bodies, not least as a means to 'working with the body' rather than simply producing a critique of medicine. We provide a brief review of some of the recent discussions on how to conceive of medicine and its bodies, noting the increasing attention now given to medicine as a technology or series of technologies active in constituting a multiplicit…
Medicine as a Tactic of War
This photo-essay highlights the ways in which medicine features in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and uses it to reflect on the nature of ethical obligation set out by Judith Butler in her work on state-achieved precarity. Although medical infrastructure of even the most basic type is tragically lacking and in some areas shockingly absent in the OPT, it is the particular way in which medicine comes to be needed that we focus on. Leavi…
HIV, Globalization and Topology
In this article we explore how two enactments of HIV - the UN's AIDS Clock and clinical trials for an HIV biomedical prevention technology or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - entail particular globalizing and localizing dynamics. Drawing on Latour's and Whitehead's concept of proposition, and Serres' call for a philosophy of prepositions, we use the composite notion of pre/pro-positions to trace the shifting topological status of HIV. For exampl…
Imagination, Diagnostics, and the Materialization of HIV
HIV/Aids in its third decade
Commentaries on the nature of social and cultural research
Rethinking the Bioethical Enactment of Medically Drugged Bodies
In this paper we examine the work of bioethics in the enactment of medically drugged bodies by focusing on the development of an oral pre-exposure chemo (drug) prophylaxis for preventing HIV, called PrEP. Our aim is to show how the operationalisation of bioethics to mediate drug development obscures a more complex and relational dynamic out of which emerges the qualities and, indeed, problematics of bodies incorporated into PrEP. Our analysis is …
The performative function of expectations in translating treatment to prevention
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…
Medicine
In this introduction, we address some of the complexities associated with the emergence of medicine's bodies, not least as a means to 'working with the body' rather than simply producing a critique of medicine. We provide a brief review of some of the recent discussions on how to conceive of medicine and its bodies, noting the increasing attention now given to medicine as a technology or series of technologies active in constituting a multiplicit…
Blood and bioidentity
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies
Background: In public health emergencies, evidence, intervention, decisions and translation proceed simultaneously, in greatly compressed timeframes, with knowledge and advice constantly in flux. Idealised approaches to evidence-based policy and practice are ill equipped to deal with the uncertainties arising in evolving situations of need. Key points for discussion: There is much to learn from rapid assessment and outbreak science approaches. Th…
Narcofeminism and its multiples
Sociology has a long-standing interest in the consumption of licit and illicit drugs, particularly as a feminist concern with scholars highlighting the ways in which drugs are used as regulatory technologies to control the conduct and subjectivities of women and other marginalised groups. This monograph flips the focus from a feminist sociological concern with drugs as a means of confining minoritised peoples, to explore what they can do as a fem…
The performative function of expectations in translating treatment to prevention
HIV, Globalization and Topology
In this article we explore how two enactments of HIV - the UN's AIDS Clock and clinical trials for an HIV biomedical prevention technology or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - entail particular globalizing and localizing dynamics. Drawing on Latour's and Whitehead's concept of proposition, and Serres' call for a philosophy of prepositions, we use the composite notion of pre/pro-positions to trace the shifting topological status of HIV. For exampl…
HIV/Aids in its third decade
Rethinking the Bioethical Enactment of Medically Drugged Bodies
In this paper we examine the work of bioethics in the enactment of medically drugged bodies by focusing on the development of an oral pre-exposure chemo (drug) prophylaxis for preventing HIV, called PrEP. Our aim is to show how the operationalisation of bioethics to mediate drug development obscures a more complex and relational dynamic out of which emerges the qualities and, indeed, problematics of bodies incorporated into PrEP. Our analysis is …
What is nature capable of? Evidence, ontology and speculative medical humanities
Expanding on the recent call for a 'critical medical humanities' to intervene in questions of the ontology of health, this article develops a what we call a 'speculative' orientation to such interventions in relation to some of the ontological commitments on which contemporary biomedical cultures rest. We argue that crucial to this task is an approach to ontology that treats it not as a question of first principles, but as a matter of the consequ…
Commentaries on the nature of social and cultural research
Consumer Activism in the Pharmacology of HIV
This article explores problems posed by HIV anti-retroviral combination therapies by focusing on the UK media promotion of Trizivir (a GlaxoSmithKline three-drugs-in-one tablet). Using the substance of the figural in the style of feminist critiques of science and borrowing from actor network theory, a synergistic relationship comprising HIV, anti-HIV drugs, drug manufacturers and their media, medical publications, consumer representative treatmen…
A wager on the future
Afterword
In this piece we reflect on the tensions and complexities of drug use that narcofeminism has prompted us to grapple with in producing this collection. Narcofeminist approaches challenge us to move beyond simplistic, moralistic frameworks that pathologise and stigmatise those who use drugs, and instead seek more nuanced understandings of the social, cultural and political forces through which drug use materialises. By foregrounding the experiences…
Medicine as a Tactic of War
This photo-essay highlights the ways in which medicine features in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and uses it to reflect on the nature of ethical obligation set out by Judith Butler in her work on state-achieved precarity. Although medical infrastructure of even the most basic type is tragically lacking and in some areas shockingly absent in the OPT, it is the particular way in which medicine comes to be needed that we focus on. Leavi…
The Challenge of HIV for Feminist Theory
In this article I consider the field of HIV treatment and prevention in light of poststructural feminist critiques of the self-evidence of matter. Both HIV and poststructural feminist theory are viewed in relation to the current state of HIV scientific research of which it has been said: ' much remains left to the imagination' (McCune, 2001, emphasis added). Importantly, it is in the absence of 'real' knowledge of bodily matter and virus, that im…
Covid-19 Diagnoses
Although the body is fundamental to observation and feeling, its experience of infection is regarded by the biomedical sciences and, for the most part, the social sciences as relatively obtuse. The body is situated as a mere object of inquiry, as if its intricate and highly complex dynamics indicate that it is no more than an imperfect animated machine and, concomitantly, infection simply a change to its normative mechanisms. In this Position Pie…
Blood and bioidentity
The Challenge of HIV for Feminist Theory
In this article I consider the field of HIV treatment and prevention in light of poststructural feminist critiques of the self-evidence of matter. Both HIV and poststructural feminist theory are viewed in relation to the current state of HIV scientific research of which it has been said: ' much remains left to the imagination' (McCune, 2001, emphasis added). Importantly, it is in the absence of 'real' knowledge of bodily matter and virus, that im…
Consumer Activism in the Pharmacology of HIV
This article explores problems posed by HIV anti-retroviral combination therapies by focusing on the UK media promotion of Trizivir (a GlaxoSmithKline three-drugs-in-one tablet). Using the substance of the figural in the style of feminist critiques of science and borrowing from actor network theory, a synergistic relationship comprising HIV, anti-HIV drugs, drug manufacturers and their media, medical publications, consumer representative treatmen…
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…
Aids, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge - Alex Preda
HIV/Aids in its third decade
Commentaries on the nature of social and cultural research
Rethinking the Bioethical Enactment of Medically Drugged Bodies
In this paper we examine the work of bioethics in the enactment of medically drugged bodies by focusing on the development of an oral pre-exposure chemo (drug) prophylaxis for preventing HIV, called PrEP. Our aim is to show how the operationalisation of bioethics to mediate drug development obscures a more complex and relational dynamic out of which emerges the qualities and, indeed, problematics of bodies incorporated into PrEP. Our analysis is …
The performative function of expectations in translating treatment to prevention
Imagination, Diagnostics, and the Materialization of HIV
HIV-Negative and HIV-Positive Gay Men’s Attitudes to Medicines, HIV Treatments and Antiretroviral-based Prevention
Medicine
In this introduction, we address some of the complexities associated with the emergence of medicine's bodies, not least as a means to 'working with the body' rather than simply producing a critique of medicine. We provide a brief review of some of the recent discussions on how to conceive of medicine and its bodies, noting the increasing attention now given to medicine as a technology or series of technologies active in constituting a multiplicit…
Medicine as a Tactic of War
This photo-essay highlights the ways in which medicine features in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and uses it to reflect on the nature of ethical obligation set out by Judith Butler in her work on state-achieved precarity. Although medical infrastructure of even the most basic type is tragically lacking and in some areas shockingly absent in the OPT, it is the particular way in which medicine comes to be needed that we focus on. Leavi…
HIV, Globalization and Topology
In this article we explore how two enactments of HIV - the UN's AIDS Clock and clinical trials for an HIV biomedical prevention technology or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - entail particular globalizing and localizing dynamics. Drawing on Latour's and Whitehead's concept of proposition, and Serres' call for a philosophy of prepositions, we use the composite notion of pre/pro-positions to trace the shifting topological status of HIV. For exampl…
Innovation and Biomedicine
With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and t
Connective adventures in the work of Ebola
Increasing Belief in the Effectiveness of HIV Treatment as Prevention
What is nature capable of? Evidence, ontology and speculative medical humanities
Expanding on the recent call for a 'critical medical humanities' to intervene in questions of the ontology of health, this article develops a what we call a 'speculative' orientation to such interventions in relation to some of the ontological commitments on which contemporary biomedical cultures rest. We argue that crucial to this task is an approach to ontology that treats it not as a question of first principles, but as a matter of the consequ…
A careful biomedicine? Generalization and abstraction in RCTs
This article takes up biomedical and public health concerns about the difficulty of generalizing or extrapolating measurements of efficacy produced by the method of the randomized control trial (RCT) to wider populations. While explanations for the difficulty may be deduced from social studies of science that reveal the contingent and situated nature of trial findings, new conceptual tools are required to allow for the practical value associated …
A wager on the future
The challenge of breath
The challenge of breath: toward an 'after' COVID-19COVID-19 has the capacity to take our breath away, the very essence of what is necessary to sustain life.So too might the response to COVID-19 be seen as breathtaking.Besides the introduction, almost overnight, of extraordinary changes to our daily existence -notably practices of isolation, paradoxically consistent with the necessity for collectively thwarting COVID-19's communicability -science …
PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) and its possibilities for clinical practice
In this article, we reflect on the possibilities that PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) raises for HIV specialist clinicians. Often neglected, yet a direct participant at the intersection of a complex tension within public health debates on how to reduce HIV transmission and the sexual sociability of individuals, we reflect on current thinking of health practitioners involved in the day-to-day practice of prescribing PrEP. Drawing on interviews…
A model society
Viral outbreaks and public health emergencies obligate an urgent need for evidence to inform rapid responses. In the case of SARS-Cov-2, a novel virus linked to the fast-moving COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models projecting disease outbreaks and the potential effects of interventions are playing a critical role. Modelled projections are not only evidence-making policy decisions, but are afforded power-of-acting in public understandings and in …
Beyond biological citizenship
This special section reflects on the challenges and achievements of HIV/AIDS activism in the historico-political context of the European region. While there is substantial literature on activist-driven policy shifts in the different and, particularly, the early stages of the epidemic, much of this has studied Western Europe. Considerably less attention has been given to the broader European region and its constituent countries, especially those a…
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies
Background: In public health emergencies, evidence, intervention, decisions and translation proceed simultaneously, in greatly compressed timeframes, with knowledge and advice constantly in flux. Idealised approaches to evidence-based policy and practice are ill equipped to deal with the uncertainties arising in evolving situations of need. Key points for discussion: There is much to learn from rapid assessment and outbreak science approaches. Th…
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