Mapping HIV-related figures of risk in Europe’s blood donation regime
| Autor: | Todd Sekuler, Agata Dziuban |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
citizenship Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) figuration 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease_cause Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Political science medicine Council of Europe 030212 general & internal medicine Citizenship Health policy risk media_common moral economy HIV health policy Moral economy Donor deferral Blood donor blood donation |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Cultural Studies. 24:184-201 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3551 1367-5494 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1367549420919864 |
| Popis: | Grasping blood donation as contested grounds for enacting notions of belonging, responsibility and citizenship, this article analyses the role of donor deferral policies in the emergence of a European blood donation regime. We demonstrate how shifts in the moral economy of blood donation that followed from the outbreak of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic led to the prioritisation of donor deferral policies in efforts to enhance blood safety across Europe. We propose the notion ‘figures of risk’ – condensed figurations of those understood to pose risks of HIV infection to themselves and to others – to describe the categories of persons implicated in changing European donor restriction policies. We explore how the Council of Europe’s annually revised Guide to the preparation, use and quality assurance of blood components, first published in 1992, came to legitimise and sustain increasingly contested deferral practices, which have produced shifting groups of persons as European ‘figures of risk’. Qualitative analyses of the Guide’s 19 editions reveal 3 dimensions through which these figures have become increasingly stabilised over time: in terms of their ontology, temporality and risk-related exceptionality. We conclude by asking how collectivising figurations of donors, framed through literature on ‘profiling’, shape notions of European citizenship. |
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