The Biosocial Body
HIV Visibility in an Age of Pharmaceutical Treatment in Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2263876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Hegarty (0000-0002-5240-1143, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 460-474 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/etho.12325 |
| OpenAlex | W4213070934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
Peer outreach workers play a pivotal role in assisting HIV-positive people to access pharmaceutical treatment. In their role mediating between everyday sexual cultures and biomedical knowledge, outreach workers for men who have sex with men in Indonesia's capital city Jakarta emphasize the need to manage the visibility of the HIV-positive body as it appears to others. In order to enter clinical spaces, clients must adopt neat attire, strive to embody a physique that is robust, and maintain a clear skin tone. Clients must also learn to gain mastery over their gender performance as a revelation of their sexuality. Outreach workers interpret the individual sexual and HIV-positive status of their clients as either "open" or "closed" in relation to their audience, an understanding that generates a demand for self-discipline directed at outer appearances. Attending to paradigms of visibility that discipline the biosocial body reveals the social relations necessary for accessing treatment
Biosocial theory · Outreach · Visibility · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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Remedicalizing an epidemic
The Made-Up State
Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm
The Gay Archipelago
Strategies of silence in an age of transparency
Centring ‘being undetectable’ as the new face of HIV
Chasing targets in a pandemic
Under the Lights, Onto the Stage
One Transgender Community's Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Increasing HIV treatment access, uptake and use among men who have sex with men in urban Indonesia
Understanding and Addressing Aids-Related Stigma
Seeing Aids in Aceh
The biopolitics of engagement and the HIV cascade of care
HIV and Aids-related stigma and discrimination
The MSM category as bureaucratic technology
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
On the Margins of Pharmaceutical Citizenship
(Bio)Sociality and HIV in Tanzania
Better Women
Nuri's testimony
But Do Not Identify as Gay
Conviction without Being Convinced
The Morality of Performance
Impure Science
Measuring the World
Geographies of contagion
ConceivingKothis
A Disease Unlike Any Other? Why HIV Remains Exceptional in the Age of Treatment
Can You Keep a Secret? Pretences of Confidentiality in HIV/Aids Counseling and Treatment in Eastern Indonesia
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |