2021
DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1971102
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Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject

Abstract: Hepatitis C has long been a public health problem in Australia. 'Revolutionary' new drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have now emerged. The Australian government has invested heavily in them, and has an ambitious goal to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030. Numerous shifts in policy and practice are required if the elimination agenda is to be realised. This paper explores the significance of these shifts. We ask: what is the race to elimination doing with the subject? We argue that the race to elimination… Show more

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“…In this article, we ask how to account for such issues in a context in which access to a much‐improved treatment has made hepatitis C elimination a tangible goal (for analysis of some of the political implications of the elimination agenda, see Lancaster et al, 2020). While social and structural impediments to treatment, including stigma and onerous treatment regimens, were regularly foregrounded in socially oriented hepatitis C research on interferon‐based treatment, there is a risk that critical issues such as these and others will be backgrounded or forgotten in the enthusiastic rush to embrace ‘revolutionary’ treatment and simple cures (Seear & Lenton, 2021). To ensure these issues do not fall from view, in this article we offer an approach that positions them not as separate factors that impact treatment experiences but as ontologically inseparable from cure itself.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this article, we ask how to account for such issues in a context in which access to a much‐improved treatment has made hepatitis C elimination a tangible goal (for analysis of some of the political implications of the elimination agenda, see Lancaster et al, 2020). While social and structural impediments to treatment, including stigma and onerous treatment regimens, were regularly foregrounded in socially oriented hepatitis C research on interferon‐based treatment, there is a risk that critical issues such as these and others will be backgrounded or forgotten in the enthusiastic rush to embrace ‘revolutionary’ treatment and simple cures (Seear & Lenton, 2021). To ensure these issues do not fall from view, in this article we offer an approach that positions them not as separate factors that impact treatment experiences but as ontologically inseparable from cure itself.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They identify how rights and forms of care deemed valuable by the individual are erased through the recomposing, and how this constitutes a dilemma for people who live with Hep C/people who use drugs. Seear and Lenton (2021) observe this also presents a dilemma for posthuman scholarship. We suggest such a stance -bringing close examination to bear on the political consequences of the 'problem' of the remade human in their contexts, and how posthuman conceptual and methodological tools co-create the remade human -can progress the conversation between health sociology and posthumanism.…”
Section: Using the 'Remade' Human To Progress Health Sociologymentioning
confidence: 97%
“…The uptake of posthuman thinking as exemplified by the papers in this special issue, and by health sociology more broadly, suggest the diverse forms of knowledge-making enabled by posthumanism align with and progress agendas valued by health sociology. As Seear and Lenton (2021) observe, posthuman approaches 'open up an important political space, pushing back against foundational logics of drug law, policy and related fields of practice' (p.3). Similarly, Gibson et al (2021) suggest that posthuman thinking enables exploration of care in addition to approaches which are 'limited by humanist ideals of choice, autonomy, and self-determination' (p.9).…”
Section: Using the 'Remade' Human To Progress Health Sociologymentioning
confidence: 99%
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