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Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject.

Hepatitis C has long been a public health problem in Australia. 'Revolutionary' new drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have now emerged. The Australian government has invested heavily in them, and has an ambitious goal to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030. Numerous shifts in policy and practic...

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Published in:Health Sociology Review Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 229 - 244
Main Authors: Seear, Kate, Lenton, Emily
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov 2021
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        affil: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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          Hepatitis C Epidemiology
          Hepatitis C Prevention and Control
          Hepatitis C Drug Therapy
          Australia
          Human
          Cost Benefit Analysis
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          Health Policy
      ab: Hepatitis C has long been a public health problem in Australia. 'Revolutionary' new drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have now emerged. The Australian government has invested heavily in them, and has an ambitious goal to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030. Numerous shifts in policy and practice are required if the elimination agenda is to be realised. This paper explores the significance of these shifts. We ask: what is the race to elimination doing with the subject? We argue that the race to elimination can be understood, simultaneously, as a product of posthuman forces, capable of being analysed using the theoretical tools made available via the posthuman turn; producing an intervention in what it means to be human; and generating a dilemma for people who use (or used) drugs, people with hepatitis C, and posthuman scholarship. In drawing out these issues, we aim to: trace the significant developments underway in hepatitis C medicine and raise awareness of them; encourage reflection on the consequences of these developments; and invite reflections on what might be lost when the human is remade by hepatitis C medicine.
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