Discipline for pleasure: a new governmentality of HIV prevention.

Discipline Foucault HIV/AIDS Pleasure PrEP Security Sex

Journal

BioSocieties
ISSN: 1745-8552
Titre abrégé: Biosocieties
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101475169

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2023
Historique:
accepted: 21 09 2021
pubmed: 6 10 2021
medline: 6 10 2021
entrez: 5 10 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This article explores recent HIV prevention campaigns for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), focusing on how they integrate pleasure and desire in their calls for self-discipline through a continual use of pharmaceuticals. This emerging type of health promotion, here represented by ads promoting the preventive use of pharmaceuticals, no longer simply approaches target groups with demands to abstain from harmful substances or practices and thus control risks, but also includes messages that recognize individuals' habits, values, and their desires for pleasure. Drawing on Foucault's work concerning discipline and security, we suggest that a novel, permissive discipline is emerging in contemporary HIV prevention. Further guided by Barthes's theory of images, we analyse posters used in prevention campaigns, scrutinizing their culture-specific imagery and linguistic messages, i.e. how the words and images interact. We conclude that these campaigns introduce a new temporality of prevention, one centred on pleasure through the pre-emption and planning that PrEP enables.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34608399
doi: 10.1057/s41292-021-00257-1
pii: 257
pmc: PMC8481318
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

102-127

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of interestOn behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Tony Sandset (T)

Institute for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Kaspar Villadsen (K)

Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Kristin Heggen (K)

Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Eivind Engebretsen (E)

Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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