Biomedical Citizenship
Biomedical Citizenship
This chapter focuses on the Treatment Action Campaign, and its struggle for the public provision of antiretrovirals. The international struggle against patent protection on essential medicines is the backdrop of this movement’s success. The chapter argues that the TAC instigated the introduction of biomedical citizenship by linking welfare rights to certain disciplinary biomedical behaviors. The chapter asks: what happens when structural inequality makes the assumption of biomedical technologies of the self impossible? It argues that bio-politics blurs into necropolitics at the threshold of citizenship, constituting a new form of exclusionary inclusion.
Keywords: antiretrovirals, health activism, biomedical citizenship, technologies of the self, HIV, bio-politics, neoliberalism, governance, exclusionary inclusion, Treatment Action Campaign
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