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Financial Fallout in the US Biopharmaceutical Industry
Highlights Abstract Patients are suffering the consequences of financialization – as shareholders demand high returns from pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceuticals squeeze profits out of top-selling products, and insurers charge higher premiums for limited coverage, the impact of financialization cascades across the value chain to compound the burden of cost for patients. This article offers a novel…
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Liminality and transactional sex among queer refugees: Insights from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Switzerland
Credit: Andrew Chan, the Cat who Knits, and Ryan Whitacre, “Caught Between States,” Created for the inaugural HIV Science as Art Exhibit at the International AIDS Society meeting, Brisbane, AUS, July 2023. Abstract: People of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions who have been forcibly displaced (hereafter referred to as ‘queer refugees’) encounter liminal…
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How the politics of intimate relationships structure innovation
In this chapter, I argue the politics of intimate relationships structure innovation for sexual and reproductive health technologies. I present three case studies that explore how national political concerns surrounding maternal intentions and the race of sexual women shape the production of sexual and reproductive health technologies. The products I examine are: GONAL-F, a subcutaneous…
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COVID-19 and the political geography of racialisation
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems around the globe, and intensified the lethality of social and political inequality. In the United States, where public health departments have been severely defunded, Black, Native, Latinx communities and those experiencing poverty in the country’s largest cities are disproportionately infected and disproportionately dying. Based on our collective ethnographic…
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Revealing truth through diagnostics
This article examines the changing role of ‘confessional technologies’ (Foucault 1990) over the history of the HIV pandemic, beginning when US public health departments first rolled out testing campaigns and continuing in the present day through the expansion of diagnostic practices to support the development and implementation of pharmaceutical technologies for HIV prevention. Across this…
Ryan Whitacre 