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positions (2010) 18 (2): 511–536.
Published: 01 May 2010
...- oped a reverse discourse.2 In this reverse discourse, those infected with the disease have not turned a pathologizing medical discourse around to refer in an affirmative manner to themselves, but rather have created a negative language...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 629–679.
Published: 01 August 1994
... will confound my ophthalmologist and my regular doctor will gently tell me there is only one test left: that is when Dan’ (not sick, but now infected with my fear) and I will go to the “small and dreary” King County Public Health building...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
... administration of antiretroviral drugs, her failure to keep to the regimen that might have preserved his battered immune system. Con- sequently, the eleven- year- old boy had been in and out of emergency care for respiratory and other infections...
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 367–391.
Published: 01 May 1995
.... From the signs of an “abnormal” sexuality or an “unclean” diet, the “islanders” were consti- tuted as diseased and the “island customs” were produced as a source of infection. Again, in the same manner as anthropology...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 1994
...); positions 2: 1 Spring 1994 4 nor can the time of AIDS be a phenomenological temporality, because the ori- gin, either etiological or epidemiological, of HIV infection is lost in the liter...
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positions (1998) 6 (3): 637–673.
Published: 01 August 1998
... that they are not aliens (ihGjin),unlike other eta whose ancestors, he says, came from Russia, China, Korea, and other foreign places.35 Moreover, Ushimatsu’s “disease” cannot be understood in terms of a hereditary susceptibility to infection. When...
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positions (1998) 6 (3): 551–595.
Published: 01 August 1998
... disorders, and ascariasis was endemic, venereal infection was epidemic, and plague infested certain regions of the country. Despite this range of menacing dis- orders, yijing ranked among the most commonplace disorders discussed...
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 February 2004
... an example of what I gathered from my experience in the village. We talked to the women in the village about questions of health, the body, sexuality, and attitudes. We found that the problems of women’s back pain and vaginal infections were...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 135–171.
Published: 01 February 1997
... in the various local areas has been gradually increasing, and the detrimental effects of this evil disease are not insignificant, harming health in particular by infecting peo- ple with syphilis,” and it instructed that “facilities to lessen...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 607–632.
Published: 01 August 2021
... equality. Therefore, both HIV and the queer body—bodies assumed to be infected with the virus—are threats because of their high susceptibility and corruptible characteristics. Returning to the military is illustrative here. The high probability that young conscripts will engage in male-on-male sex...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 35–63.
Published: 01 February 2007
... or invisible — in rela- tion to the state. From 1985, when China recognized its first HIV/AIDS case, to mid- 2003, an estimated 0.6 million to 1.3 million people were infected with HIV/ AIDS, with an annual increase rate...
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positions (1998) 6 (3): 675–705.
Published: 01 August 1998
... Levine Nineteenth-century anxiety over sexually transmitted diseases was a pow- erful mix of moral and sanitary prejudice that routinely viewed promiscu- ity, and more especially prostitution, as the likeliest route of infection...
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positions (1998) 6 (3): 707–730.
Published: 01 August 1998
... the unaffected population. Many had been mistakenly diag- nosed as lepers and did not in fact show Hansen’s bacillus in their nasal scrapings; still others were infected with the microbe but appeared clinically normal. Heiser, increasingly...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of 2020, Singapore faced a crisis over foreign bodies. Initially successful at containing infections of COVID-19, the city-state furthered its reputation for efficient, effective governance (Iwamoto 2020 ; Heijmans and Gale 2020 ). But a new outbreak threatened this image, occurring as it did behind...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 759–771.
Published: 01 August 2004
... the ex- perience of a child’s life to analyze the Chinese model of this phenomenon of viral infection. Today, in democratic and non-democratic countries alike, violence is on the rise between states, between...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 439–465.
Published: 01 May 1997
... are routinely forced to take antibiotic injections, whether infected or not, and are quarantined against their will until their symptoms clear up.62 Efforts to control marginalized bodies carry over in the current World Health Organization...
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 479–507.
Published: 01 May 2004
... a middle-ear infection as a result of having been hit on the head after being taken in by the police in connection with his work in a proletarian cultural organization (1979, 451). The postwar version contains the following ac- count: “In spring...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 687–711.
Published: 01 November 2019
... inquiry such as sociobiology and memetics.1 Inwood, who uses the term as a touchstone for her monograph, pushes back against the biotic expectations the term creates: The story of the meme does not describe the spread of a social infection; the word viral is also misleading in this regard. . . . To put...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 475–502.
Published: 01 May 1998
..., in studying Thai sexual behavior and the risk of HIV infection, researchers note that many Thai men have reduced their visits to sex workers but have sought casual sex partners from the general female population. See Werasit Sittit rai, Praphan Phanuphak...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 February 2016
... is inextricably entwined with the tactile sensation of danger upon this encounter with dif- ference. In other words, the sensation of feeling coarse fur and a clammy, muscular hand poses the danger of potentially sharing infections...