INDV 102: Sex, Health and AIDS

Issues not covered: AIDS in the Workplace. Transplant Ethics. Foster children and treatment. China and India: Poised for an Outbreak? Barebacking. Mandatory reporting. Mandatory treatment. Immigration Policy.

Required Texts—available at ASUA Bookstore

Thomas Shevory, Notorious HIV: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

Cindy Patton, Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996)

Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 200

Required Text not available at the bookstore

*Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart: A Play (New York: Plume, 1985)

*Normal Heart is out of print. However, when I checked, Amazon.com alone had 40 used copies. You’ll have to be enterprising and go find one. ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452257980/qid=1133757362/sr=81/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-2810238-5108827?n=507846&s=books&v=glance )

Jan. 12—course overview

Overview: History of a Global Public Health Epidemic

Jan. 17—Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust (pp. 268-377)

(buy used for $6: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/offer-listing/0786884401/ref=dp_olp_2//002-2810238-5108827?condition=all

Jan. 19—Garret, pp. 378-486

I. THE UNITED STATES

ACT UP! FIGHT BACK! FIGHT AIDS!

Jan. 24— Larry Kramer, “1,112 and Counting” New York Native (1983)—in Reports from the Holocaust (Stop the Church); from either Simon Watney, Practices of Freedom or Randy Shiltz, And the Band Played On or Steven Epstein (1997) “AIDS Activism and the Retreat from the Genocide Frame,” Social Identities 3: 3 (1997): 415-438 or the first chapter of his book

Jan. 26—5 page paper due: based on (at least) one of the interview from the ACT UP oral history project ( http://www.actuporalhistory.org/interviews/index.html), write a short history of the epidemic and its activism from that person’s perspective

AIDS Service Organizations in the US: Gays versus Blacks and Latinos?

Jan. 31— Cindy Patton, “The AIDS Service Industry,” from Inventing AIDS (Routledge, 1990)

Feb. 2-- Evelynn Hammonds, “Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of the ‘Other’” Radical America 20:6 (1986): 28-36; Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “Double Lives on the Down Low,” New York Times Magazine (August 3, 2003);

Feb. 7 (drop deadline)—Tomas Almaguer, "Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, V. 3, no. 2 (Summer 1991) .

Women

Feb. 9—Paula Treichler, “Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, identity, and inscriptions of gender,” pp. 235. – 277 in her How to Have Theory in an Epidemic

Feb. 14— Cathy Cohen, “Invisible to the Centers for Disease Control” in The Boundaries of Blackness

Feb. 16—Paul Farmer, “Women, Poverty, and AIDS” in Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons, eds. Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence (Common Courage Press, 1996).

Safer Sex

Feb. 21—Cindy Patton, Fatal Advice

Feb. 23— DITTO (gone? –The Education of Shelby Knox)

Feb. 28— Union of Concerned Scientists, “Scientific Integrity in Policy-Making” pp. 10-12; Jennifer Block, “Science Gets Sacked,” The Nation (August 14, 2003)

Criminalization, Race, and the Media

March 2— Notorious HIV

March 7—ditto

II. AIDS, Neoliberalism, and Global Health Disparities

Safer Sex in Uganda

March 9— Shanti Parikh, “From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sources of Sexuality Education in Uganda,” in Adams and Pigg, eds. The Moral Object of Sex: Science, Development, and Sexuality in Global Perspective ( Durham, Duke, 2004).

Recommended: Human Rights Watch, “The Less They Know, the Better: Abstinence-Only HIV-education Programs in Uganda,” 17:4A (March 2005): 1-85.

Spring Break!

Safer Sex and Treatment Issues in South Africa

March 21—Catherine Campbell, “Migrancy, Masculine Identities, and AIDS: The Psychosocial context of HIV Transmission on the South African Gold Mines,” Social Science and Medicine 45 (July 1997): 273-281; Catherine MacPhail and Catherine Campbell, “I think condoms are good but aai, I hate those things’: Condom Use among Adolescents and Young People in a South African Township,” Social Science and Medicine 52 (June 2001): 1613-1627.

March 23—no new reading. gone? (State of Denial); chs. 3-4

Neoliberalism and Global Health Disparities

March 28—Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (2003), intro, ch. 1, ch. 2

March 30—Farmer, chs. 5-7

April 4--Farmer, ch. 8, 9, afterward

April 6— Greg Behrman, “Righting the Response, Getting Religion,” The Invisible People: How the US Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic ( New York: Free Press, 2004): 269-287.

Transnational Pandemic, Local Differences?

April 11—Michael Specter, “The Vaccine: Has the Race to Save Africa from AIDS Put Western Science at Odds with Western Ethics?” The New Yorker (February 3, 2003)

April 13— Richard Parker “Within Four Walls: Brazilian Sexual Culture and AIDS in Brazil” in Sexuality, Culture and AIDS in Brazil by Herbert Daniel or Richard G. Parker, “Public Policy, Political Activism, and AIDS in Brazil,” in Douglas Feldman, Global AIDS Policy; pp.28-46; or Pamela Hartigan, “The Response of Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America to HIV Infection and AIDS: A Vehicle for Grasping the Contribution NGOs Make to Health and Development,” in Global AIDS Policy; pp.47-60.

The Art of the Epidemic

April 18—Angels in America (Part 1)

April 20--ditto

April 25—ditto, plus discussion

April 27—Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart

May 2—last day of classes