AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas

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Names that have been changed by the authorfor the purposes o/preserving anonymity appear in quotation marks. Historically accurate names, includingpseudonyms in conzmon usage, are not so marked. addiction, I , 81-118, 193; criminalization ofsociomedical problems, 4, 6, 88-89, 117-18; criminalization of, and lack of treatment for pregnant women, 4, 196n. 5; management of, 97, 104, 109; prostitution and, 113-14; social identity and relationships, 10910 ; women and, 201n. 4. See also Derrida, Jacques; drugs Africa, 53 -57 AIDS: alibis, 2-6, 9, 104, 157, 173, 177, 193; as field of discourse, 6 -7; master signifier, 7, 9, 16, 78, 138, 140; origin theories, 55 -56, lOin. 3; patients, 94, 106- 8; "rage," 169, 174; women's diagnostic criteria, 198n. 2. See also epidemiology ; HlV; immunity/immunosuppression ; law; mass media AIDS prevention, 3-5, 13,96, 193; as alibi, 4-5,33,194; in Belize, 14, 49-50, 60, 66 - 67; evidence ofhaving received, 186; gap between knowledge and behavior, II; HlV-positive persons and, 185; politics of, 71-73, 134, 156. See also carnival; condoms; confidentiality; disclosure ofserostatus; drug injectOrs; epidemiology; needles; public health; scientific knowledge;sex partners; war on drugs Anderson, Laurie, The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin), 126, 202n. 1 "Angela" (nurse) , 51, 57 anthropology, applied, n See ethnography anxious norm, 18, 170-71, 187, 191 Arendt, Hannah, 18 Baudrillard,Jean: AIDS as superconductive event, 6- 7; simulation, 119 Belize, 46-73, 77-80, 127; Barranco, 77- 80; Belize City, 47-48, 51, 53, 57-58; the cayes, 63, 66; Dangriga, 53, 57; Orange Walk, 53-54, 58, 66; Placencia , 63; Punta Gorda (PG), 49, 51, 54-57,59, 61, 68, 78, 98, 119- 21, 202n. 2. See also AIDS prevention; consciousness; drugs; epidemiology; ethnicity; Guatemala; immigration; migrant workers; militaty; police; prostitution; religion: Catholic Church in Belize Black Liberation Radio, lOin. 3 blood: blood banks / blood safety, 59, 98, 2020. 2; prosecution of blood banks, 131-}2; and HlV antibody, 192; HlV survivability in, 85-87; legal case of infected, as weapon, 137; legal case of infected, as weapon in fiction, 175 Boland, Con, 165 - 68 "Boots" (injectOr, prostitute), 82- 84, 89 - 94,192 Buddhists. See religion, Buddhist community Burkett, Elinor, 174, 204n. 8 217 Copyrighted Material INDEX c. J. (radio witch), 171-76, 184, 190 Canada: Buddhist community in, 159- 60; criminal cases in (see Fitzsimmons , Terry; Ssenyonga, C harles; Tan, Marilyn) Cantwell, Alan, 55 -56, 198n. 3 capital punishment, 164- 65, 178. See Foster, LaFonda Fay carnival: AIDS intervention and, 122, 127, 193; systematicity and, 7, II, 15, 120 Catholic church. See religion CDC, 31-32, 86, 132, 195n. I, 19899n ·5 Chicago: drug injectors and sex partners in, 12, 23-34, 81-118, 197n. I; southside , 23- 24. See also epidemiology; ethnicity; gay men; political and economic inequality; ptostirution CIA, and was on drugs, 6 Cipher, 119-27 civil rights, public health and, 131, 14243 , 187 Collins, Darnell, 138- 41, 144, 148, 165 condoms: Catholic Church and, 49-50, 60; and discordant couples, 54, 185; intentional transmission cases and, 135; meaning of, 70; use of, 53, 86. See also prostirution: condom use and confidentiality, dilemmas of, 131, 14243 , 156-61, 202n. 10, 204n. 8. See also disclosure of serostatus consciousness, 9, 163; and alcohol use, 153 - 54; in Belize, 14, 51; effect of television on, 175. See also globalization consensual sex. See sex conspiracy theories, 194, 198- 99n. 5 criminal law. See intentional HIV transmission ; law C uba, 144-47, 202n. II cultural studies, 8 Cunanan, Andrew, 169 Dalton, Harlon, 168 death: drug overdoses, 90, 92; funeral rite in Belize, 14, 77- 80; homicide, 1,32; nasrative and (Taussig), 10; of 21 8 PWAS, 106-8, 159-60; suicide, 164. See also capital punishment Derrida, Jacques, drug addiction, 200n. 1 deviance, 102, 194; risk and, 5, 117-18, 142; sacred rites and, 149-53; systematic bias and, 17- 18, 192 disclosure of serostatus, 16, 17, 157, 173, 189, 202fl.9; Hlv-positive gay men and, 185; legal ramifications of, 18283 , 187 discordant couples, 54, 185 Donahue, Phi!, 171-75, 178, 192 Dotson, C. Jason, poetry of, 22, 76, 130 drug injectors: AI DS prevention among, 195n. I ; social identity of, 5, 102, 108. See also "Boots" (injecror, prostitute); Johnson, Deborah; "Nat" (injector); " Rosalind" (injector); Chicago: drug injectors and sex partners in drugs: effects on sexual risk, 15, 116 - 17; methods of administration, 100 - 102, 108; overdoses, 90, 92; social organization and, II5- 18. See also addiction; drug injectors; G uatemala EI Salvador...