Biotechnology and the new politics of life and death in Brazil: the AIDS model.
The Brazilian government is providing free antiretroviral therapies to all of the country's registered AIDS cases, and this policy is being hailed as a model for treatment AIDS worldwide. My paper is an ethnographic investigation of this emergent biopolitical paradigm. I explore the forms of governance, civility, and humanness that emerge through this population whose rights are biotechnologically realized, and the mechanisms through which this model continues to not address the most vulnerable populations, leaving them "invisible."
Biehl
Joao
J
Princeton University, USA.
D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D001709:Biotechnology; D001938:Brazil; D003906:Developing Countries; D004345:Drug Industry; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D010330:Patents as Topic; D011057:Politics; D011203:Poverty; D011635:Public Health Administration; D011640:Public Policy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors