Rapid Home HIV Testing: Risk and the Moral Imperatives of Biological Citizenship

Body and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 24-47

  Banda, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

biopolitics; biotechnology; citizenship; health promotion; HIV; medicalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948709209     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X14528391     Document Type: Article

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