Antibiotics and the Biopolitics of Sex Work in Zimbabwe

Manyau, Salome; Dixon, Justin; Mutukwa, Norest; Kandiye, Faith; Lopez, Paula Palanco; MacPherson, Eleanor; Ferrand, Rashida A; Chandler, Clare I R

doi:10.1080/01459740.2022.2037083

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“…Thus, we condemned them to suffer the violent, inequitable legacies of colonialism, concomitant with our (post)modern globalisation ( Hirsch 2021 ; Hinchliffe 2021 ). Lacking access to sufficient antibiotic arsenals and medical expertise, while being subject to structural adjustment programmes, national debts, corrupt governments and privatisation of their already underfunded and under-resourced state infrastructures ( MacPherson et al 2021 ; Manyau et al 2022 ), they struggled to materialise our aseptic dream. As such, we increasingly diagnosed their states ( Khine Zaw, Bawk, and De Lima Hutchison 2021 ), the movement of their bodies ( McInnes and Lee 2006 ; Relman, Choffnes, and Mack 2010 ; Ibrahim 2005 ), their governments, markets, cultures and behaviours, as a major sources of invasive—bacterial—resistance movements ( Collignon et al 2018 ).…”

Section: The(ir) Antibiotic Era (1910–present): Germs Of Our Modern W...mentioning

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Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era

Hutchison

2022

Med Humanities

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Once upon a time, many of us moderns dreamt that our future was bright, squeaky clean, germ-free. Now, we increasingly fear that bacterial resistance movements and hordes of viruses are cancelling our medicated performances, and threatening life as many of us have come to know it. In order for our modern antibiotic theatre of war to go on, we pray for salvation through our intensive surveillance of microbes, crusades for more rational antibiotic wars, increased recruitment of resistance fighters and development of antibiotic armaments through greater investment in our medical-industrial-war complex. But not all of us are in favour of the promise of perpetual antimicrobial wars, no matter how careful or rational their proponents aspire to be. An increasing vocal and diverse opposition has amassed in academic journals, newspapers and other fields of practice denouncing medicalisation and pharamceuticalisation of our daily lives, as well as our modern medicine as overly militaristic. In this paper, rather than simply rehearsing many of these well-made and meaning debates to convert you to yet another cause, I enrol them in redescriptions of our modern medical performances in the hope of awakening you from your aseptic dream. What follows is my invitation for you to re-enact our mythic antibiotic era in all its martial g(l)ory. I promise that it will bring you no physically harm, yet I can't promise it will leave your beliefs unscathed, as you follow its playful redescription of how our objective scientific descriptions, clinical prescriptions, economic strategies, political mandates and military orders, not to mention our warspeak, have always been deeply entangled with triumphs and devastations of The(ir) Great anti-Microbial Wars (aka our antibiotic era).

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Section: The(ir) Antibiotic Era (1910–present): Germs Of Our Modern W...mentioning

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Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era

Hutchison

2022

Med Humanities

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A queer feminist posthuman framework for bioethics: on vulnerability, antimicrobial resistance, and justice

Sudenkaarne

2024

Monash Bioeth. Rev.

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In this paper, I discuss the bioethical principle of justice and the bioethical key concept of vulnerability, in a queer feminist posthuman framework. I situate these contemplations, philosophical by nature, in the context of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one the most vicious moral problems of our time. Further, I discuss how gender and sexual variance, vulnerability and justice manifest in AMR. I conclude by considering my queer feminist posthuman framework for vulnerability and justice in relation to the notion of antibiotic vulnerabilities, suggesting a lacuna for further AMR research.

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Gender and equity considerations in AMR research: a systematic scoping review

Lynch,

Fluks,

Manderson

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Monash Bioeth. Rev.

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Research on gender and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) beyond women’s biological susceptibility is limited. A gender and equity lens in AMR research is necessary to promote gender equality and support the effectiveness, uptake, and sustainability of real-world AMR solutions. We argue that it is an ethical and social justice imperative to include gender and related intersectional issues in AMR research and implementation. An intersectional exploration of the interplay between people’s diverse identities and experiences, including their gender, socio-economic status, race, disability, age, and sexuality, may help us understand how these factors reinforce AMR risk and vulnerability and ensure that interventions to reduce the risk of AMR do not impact unevenly. This paper reports on the findings of a systematic scoping review on the interlinkages between AMR, gender and other socio-behavioural characteristics to identify priority knowledge gaps in human and animal health in LMICs. The review focused on peer-reviewed and grey literature published between 2017 and 2022. Three overarching themes were gendered division of caregiving roles and responsibilities, gender power relations in decision-making, and interactions between gender norms and health-seeking behaviours. Research that fails to account for gender and its intersections with other lines of disadvantage, such as race, class and ability, risks being irrelevant and will have little impact on the continued and dangerous spread of AMR. We provide recommendations for integrating an intersectional gender lens in AMR research, policy and practice.

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Antibiotics and the Biopolitics of Sex Work in Zimbabwe

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era

Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era

A queer feminist posthuman framework for bioethics: on vulnerability, antimicrobial resistance, and justice

Gender and equity considerations in AMR research: a systematic scoping review

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