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Solution or symptom? The bio-technological fix and sexually transmitted infections

Solution or symptom? The bio-technological fix and sexually transmitted infections Dr Mark Davis, Monash University School of Social Science Seminar Series Friday 21 June  2013 The University of Queensland. MedXSafe.

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Solution or symptom? The bio-technological fix and sexually transmitted infections

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  1. Solution or symptom? The bio-technological fix and sexually transmitted infections Dr Mark Davis, Monash University School of Social Science Seminar Series Friday 21 June  2013 The University of Queensland

  2. MedXSafe • http://www.inquisitr.com/454882/std-app-lets-you-bump-smartphones-with-potential-partners/

  3. Overview • Explore the ‘technosexual imaginary’ • Compare two examples in connection with social theory • Discuss them as solutions but also as symptomatic of deeper troubles

  4. Social change, health and technology • Expansion of science and technology • Surveillance medicine • Increased burden of disease • More diseases/ disease states

  5. Managing increased costs/expectations • healthdirect.org.au • medibank.com.au • healthcoach4me.com (Glaxo) • lumigenix.com • genetrackaustralia.com

  6. Sexual health technologies • Treatment as Prevention (TasP) • Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) • Contact-tracing in e-dating sites • Like with like e-dating/serosorting

  7. Sexual health technologies • STI notifications have increased – what role do technologies play? • Definition of sexual health - ‘absence of disease’ or “rights of all persons to have the knowledge and opportunity to pursue a safe and pleasurable sexual life” (World Health Organization 2010: iv)?

  8. MedXSafe • http://medxpatient.com/products/medxsafe/

  9. MedXSafe video • http://medxpatient.com/how-it-works/

  10. Possessive individualism • “take control” • “you control”

  11. Campaign materials from Assume Nothing, produced by Terrence Higgins Trust 2000.

  12. Escaped meaning My account of myself is partial, haunted by that for which I can devise no definitive story. I cannot explain exactly why I have emerged in this way, and my efforts at narrative reconstruction are always undergoing revision. There is that in me and of me for which I can give no account. But does this mean that I am not, in the moral sense, accountable for who I am and for what I do? If I find that, despite my best efforts, a certain opacity persists and I cannot make myself fully accountable to you, is this ethical failure? . . . Is there in this affirmation of partial transparency a possibility for acknowledging a relationality that binds me more deeply to language and to you than I previously knew? (Butler, 2005: 40)

  13. Conclusion • How will individuals and populations respond to expanding sexual health technologies? • What will be the implications for self, identity, disclosure, sexual partnering etc? • Technologies solve problems/point to deeper intersubjective troubles

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