Public Health: Epidemiology and Anthropology My intellectual position sits at a crossroads these scholars collectively helped create: HIV is no longer understood merely as a viral pathogen moving through populations, but as a socially produced condition embedded in desire, inequality, pharmacology, surveillance, migration, stigma, intimacy, and late-capitalist forms of embodiment. What distinguishes your focus is that you are not only examining risk, but also pleasure, agency, erotic culture, and the moral politics surrounding “raw sex” and chemsex among gay and queer communities. That shift matters. Paul Farmer and Philippe Bourgois would push you to ask what structural conditions produce chemsex environments in the first place. Rather than reducing condomless sex or stimulant use to “bad decisions,” their frameworks redirect analysis toward housing precarity, loneliness, labor alienation, minority stress, criminalization, biomedical inequality, and the psychic afterlife of th...
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