How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS.
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This article is published in International Journal of Epidemiology.The article was published on 2002-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 79 citations till now.read more
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The trouble with "MSM" and "WSW": erasure of the sexual-minority person in public health discourse.
Rebecca Young,Ilan H. Meyer +1 more
TL;DR: Overuse of the terms MSM and WSW adds to a history of scientific labeling of sexual minorities that reflects, and inadvertently advances, heterosexist notions and public health professionals should adopt more nuanced and culturally relevant language in discussing members of sexual-minority groups.
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The Birth of the Obesity Clinic: Confessions of the Flesh, Biopedagogies and Physical Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a series of postcards to summarize the dominant obesity discourse and document the rhetorical terrain of the impending epidemic, and also offer counter-postcards to dispute the postcards' objective postulations and contextualize the birth of what they call the Obesity Clinic.
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Technology and effect: HIV/AIDS testing in Brazil.
TL;DR: This essay explores how clinical epidemiological expertise and HIV testing technology are integrated into new forms of bio-politics aimed at specific marketable and disease-free populations, and on the affective absorption ofBio-technical truth and the engendering of a technoneurosis in this testing center.
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Surveillance Studies and Violence Against Women
TL;DR: In this article, the authors place questions of surveillance technologies into a theoretical framework that foregrounds the challenges that new surveillance technologies pose to anti-violence movements, and consider the ways that surveillance technologies are used disproportionately in the criminalization marginalized groups.
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The trouble with "MSM" and "WSW": erasure of the sexual-minority person in public health discourse.
Rebecca Young,Ilan H. Meyer +1 more
TL;DR: Overuse of the terms MSM and WSW adds to a history of scientific labeling of sexual minorities that reflects, and inadvertently advances, heterosexist notions and public health professionals should adopt more nuanced and culturally relevant language in discussing members of sexual-minority groups.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Birth of the Obesity Clinic: Confessions of the Flesh, Biopedagogies and Physical Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a series of postcards to summarize the dominant obesity discourse and document the rhetorical terrain of the impending epidemic, and also offer counter-postcards to dispute the postcards' objective postulations and contextualize the birth of what they call the Obesity Clinic.
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Technology and effect: HIV/AIDS testing in Brazil.
TL;DR: This essay explores how clinical epidemiological expertise and HIV testing technology are integrated into new forms of bio-politics aimed at specific marketable and disease-free populations, and on the affective absorption ofBio-technical truth and the engendering of a technoneurosis in this testing center.
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Surveillance Studies and Violence Against Women
TL;DR: In this article, the authors place questions of surveillance technologies into a theoretical framework that foregrounds the challenges that new surveillance technologies pose to anti-violence movements, and consider the ways that surveillance technologies are used disproportionately in the criminalization marginalized groups.
Moral, Cognitive and Social: The Nature of Blame
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the cognitive side and introduce a theoretical model of blame that integrates insights and evidence from extant research, and demonstrate the critical role of such concepts as agent, intentionality, and obligation, which are grounded in people's theory of mind.