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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Biological Citizenship"”.
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Biomedicalizing Risk: Technologies of HIV Prevention and the Moral Imperatives of Biological Citizenship
This thesis examines the history and social implications of the rapid self-test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States. Via a discursive analysis of literature, product packaging, and marketing and public health rhetoric surrounding the test (brand name: OraQuick in-home HIV …
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Obtaining Legal Status in the United States: Undocumented Latinas Near Chicago and the Strategic Use of Mental Health
… creates a path towards legal status and eventual citizenship.|This research is based on participant observations at a nonprofit immigration legal services office, review of over 100 U-Visa applications between 2014-2016, 17 written personal statements, and 5 interviews with stakeholders in the …
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Transforming subjectivities: global mental health, biopolitics, & depression in Chile
… a society is the creation of individual-level biological citizenship, where people increasingly see themselves in biological ways. Biological citizenship is theorized as an active process of describing the self in biologically-colored languages while also making demands upon the state for the …
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Governing harm: the politics of survival in the era of harm reduction in India
… managers of their recovery- a type of ‘biological citizenship’ laden with choices and rights. At the same time, they struggled to meet their basic needs in the absence of a strong public health infrastructure, an issue completely overlooked by the harm reduction model. My project also …
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
This dissertation clarifies the manner in which violence against women is implicated in the re-constitution of gender in Chihuahua. Using data collected with a mixed methods, multi-staged protocol, this dissertation investigates how the routine threat of gender violence and the common presence of …