Making prevention public: The co-production of gender and technology in HIV prevention research
Making prevention public: The co-production of gender and technology in HIV prevention research
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10.1177/0306312712457707
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
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3
通讯作者：
Montgomery, Catherine M.
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作者：
Montgomery, Catherine M.
本文汇集了全球健康跨国流动和技术制品性别化的研究。它通过对阴道杀微生物剂预防艾滋病毒的案例研究来实现这一目标，在世界上艾滋病毒最流行的地区，即撒哈拉以南非洲地区，人们普遍主张将阴道杀微生物剂作为增强妇女权能的工具。根据英国和赞比亚的实地调查，我认为这种“女性控制”的技术并没有本质上的性别差异。结合脚本和“公开”的概念，我展示了性健康领域跨国技术设计和测试的政治本质。我没有像有关“全球南方”的研究中经常出现的那样，从道德辩论的角度来阐述这一点，而是将分析建立在技术和用户的脚本和描述的基础上。通过关注艾滋病毒预防方面的信息如何公开，我提请人们注意杀微生物剂等新技术的规范性、变革性和政治潜力，并讨论其对治疗成功的影响。
This paper brings together the study of transnational flows in global health and the gendering of technological artefacts. It does so through a case study of vaginal microbicides for HIV prevention, which have commonly been advocated for as a tool for women's empowerment in parts of the world where HIV is most prevalent, namely sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on fieldwork in the UK and Zambia, I argue that there is nothing inherently gendered about this 'woman-controlled' technology. Combining the notions of scripting and 'making things public', I demonstrate the political nature of transnational technology design and testing in the field of sexual health. Rather than framing this in terms of ethical debates, as is frequently the case in studies about the 'global South', I ground the analysis in the scripting and de-scripting of technologies and users. By focusing on how things are made public in HIV prevention, I draw attention to the normative, transformative and political potentials of new technologies, such as microbicides, and discuss the implications for their therapeutic success.